Anyone know Microsoft Installer? Please Help!
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As a company we recently sent someone for InstallShield training. Naturally they used the latest version, the InstallShield Developer (7). It uses Microsoft Installer (no choice) all the time combining the "best" features of InstallShield Professional 6 and InstallShield Windows Installer Edition. At any rate, I'm working on a Web project. This web project is very "thick" and uses several COM objects on the client. In order to expedite setup for end users we include a setup that installs the COM objects (and registers them) and sets up some other stuff. However, the install isn't required to run the application. Simply visiting the site will pull down the latest DLL's through signed CAB's... hence the problem. When a newer version of a DLL is cabbed and placed for download on the web server, it's automatically pulled down by IE when the client connects. This works great unless you've used the Client install. As soon as it notices we're replacing one of the DLL's it installed Windows Installer kicks off in the background and tries to "restore" the DLL. Please say there's some way to get around this behavior! Matt Philmon:confused: