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A project I worked on 15+ years ago as need additional work. Unfortunately, my build & kit environment has long ago been taken down. I have recreated the build environment but am seeking a boxed, licensed copy of InstallShield 5.5. Does anyone know where I can find one. I have the old .ipr files but updating it to a newer Install Shield has proven very difficult. I just want it to work again and allow me to generate a self extracting .exe. I'm doing this all on an old XP laptop with VS6 and VB6. Everything compiles and links. Just need to create a kit. Thanks for your help
Ideas:
Look on eBay - it typically has lots of obsolete items like this. You can search internationally and also save your search so it will email you when new matches are found. (I don't see any copies on there as of this moment).
Contact the current InstallShield owner - Flexera Software. Maybe they can help you out.
Post on VBForums - possibly someone has a copy they can sell/send/lend you.
Depending on your comfort level, you might find it on a download site / torrent download site. Since you do own a license this seems legit to me, but you need to be careful of malware, etc. (especially since you will presumably distribute the results of this installer build).
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I have tried to build a MSI package for my Windows Service with WiX for a couple of days but have big problems to get it the way I need.
The documentation is very bad and then XML structure just dont feels structured. I really don't see how they could have been doing a worse job at version 3.6.
I dont want to invest all my time in the MSI package, instead I need my time in dev of the main application.
So the questions is, what MSI builder should I use If I need:
Set app.config settings during installation
Install Windows Service
Start Windows Service
Simple install/uninstall
Thats really all I need
WiX can do all those things fairly easily (I have applications that do that and some that I use WiX to install). Problem is you have to have a pretty good understanding of Windows Installer to use WiX, as it does not really hide any of the detail from you.
The obviously alternative is InstallShield (They have a LE version that comes with VS2012 apparently, using VS2012 but not that) and Express is relatively reasonably priced.
You also may want to check out InstallAware, but I have not had good experiences with them personally when I have looked at them.
I have also been told that Advanced Installer is usable, though I have not used it myself personally.
A list and description of other installation products as well as Wix: What installation product to use? InstallShield, WiX, Wise, Advanced Installer, etc
And a link to some Wix quick-start suggestions (similar articles):
Wix generate single component id for entire tree
WiX Quick Start Tips
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Part of our business includes providing a (windows) desktop machine with a pile of Data Acquisition Cards and associated software all set up and working for our customers.
Right now, we package up all our software, dependencies, drivers, etc and a pile of bat scripts, and this is our "install tool". Our production staff run the scripts (in order), choosing options as required and they eventually get the machine configured and tested.
The process isn't great - it's a bit buggy and really should just be a lot easier.
It's occurred to me that there must be an installer technology out there that we can use to replace our bat scripting. Does anyone know of something we could use?
It should:
Be able to install multiple pieces of software (ie run their installers with all default options on).
Be able to have some scripting/customization ability, because we'd want to be able to recreate some of the things our .bat scripts do.
Preferably provide some UI - ie click through installations screens with options.
Thanks in advance!
In the end we have gone with Wix - Installshield looked great - but... in the end it was just calling a whole pile of custom build scripts.
Wix has a high learning curve, but is more like what we need.
There are many installers tools, and different people prefer different tools. You won't find the best one, because some tools fit for one tasks more than others, some expensive, some really bad and expensive and so on.
But in your case, I can recommend use Windows Installer technology and InstallShield tool for it, base on my experience. It has a lot of possibilities to create great and powerful installers. With help of Windows Installer and own InstallShield features.
Also all your requirements could be done with InstallShield.
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Xcode 4.1 is a 3GB download in one shot. Their server is slow, my internet is slow, and a minor network twitch is going to make me start again from scratch.
Is there another way to download Xcode that doesn't involve 3 hours of HTTP download in one shot?
Download it via a download manager so you can resume your download if it would fail or/and let someone upload it to another mirror which might be faster, or just let a friend or so download it for you and put it on a usb stick.
I have found googling the name of the DMG and looking for .edu sites is a good way. EDU domain sites are generally schools or universities, and have better download speeds for me at least. For xcode 3.2.6, for example, University of California in San Fransisco has the DMG here: http://www.msg.ucsf.edu/local/programs/MacOSX/
I am commenting a while after this was asked because the other answer, while valid, still gives half the download speed that this site does when I test both (not simultaneously) with axel or downthemall.
With axel I can even abort a download at one server if I think I can find better, switch to another server, and enter the same command but with a different URL to the file, and it will resume where it left off, even on a completely different server!
This is the command I ended up using:
http://www.msg.ucsf.edu/local/programs/MacOSX/xcode_3.2.6_and_ios_sdk_4.3.dmg
But be aware that there are risks - the usual ones, like someone having tampered with the file. Make sure the files are the right size and if you notice anything fishy, look up the DMG's checksum. Generally people have posted their checksums online in troubleshooting threads and such.
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Are there any open source free VBScript libraries? I am doing a lot of windows administration and always find myself writing error prone code. Any help here?
You really should move to powershell.
I haven't heard of a sysadmin working in vbscript in quite a long time.
update
There used to be several sites that hosted script libraries, like win32scripting, but they've been rapidly disappearing due to powershell.
You might go check out The Scripting Guy. They have a section just for VBScript in their forums that may be of help.
Even 5 years after the post above was written it is still short sighted and doesn't answer the question.
Admins need to work in whatever language is available and suitable -- some of us with LARGE (1000s) server or client estates still have quite a bit of Win2003, Win2000, and even a few NT4 servers.
I dislike VBScript somewhat but write using it, since it is the only language besides CMD.exe batch that is ubiquitously available on all Microsoft systems from NT4 on forward.
Even our Win2003 servers don't typically have PowerShell.
Libraries:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vbslib/
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12028
https://code.google.com/p/vbslib/
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech.php
http://www.activexperts.com/admin/scripts/vbscript/
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I'm looking for a web application to manage tasks (not necessary programming-oriented) for a small team. It must be easy to setup and maintain, and I don't look for an SaaS solution. It must offer file upload and mail users in case of a change. There is hundred of solutions available but most are too complex for what we want or are not "stable" (not updated since a long time, not very well programmed). i was wondering if stack overflow's folks have some recommendations...
Try:
lighthouse - http://lighthouseapp.com/
-or-
gemini - http://www.countersoft.com/home.aspx
We had a very similar requirement and after much searching we eventually decided on Redmine.
Does all that you require and more. Setup couldn't be easier if you use one of the Bitnami stacks. We went down the virtual image route as we had a VMWare server - but installers for existing platforms are also available.
I tried Basecamp some time ago but I don't need a web based solution. But it was pretty good.
http://basecamphq.com/
Redmine is a great project management, used by many open source projects. It is also quite actively maintained and really stable.
It's worth mentioning that even though Redmine is software oriented, it can easily be used as a project management software. All you have to do is ignore all the parts about repositories and you have a full-fledged project management software.
http://www.redmine.org/