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I have been creating a tool which will install the applications automatically. Here i have a difficulty which means, the applications where customized with Shell scripting(EXE) and Admin Studio(MSI). so when i start installing the application which created with Shell Script i could able to stop the install by checking the process name of that particular executable but if i install the application which created with Admin studio the process run as msiexec.exe so i couldn't check for the process since there were 3 msiexec running during installation. Please suggest me how can we do this :oops:

Thank you,Regards,[font="Garamond"][size="4"]K.Syed Ibrahim.[/size][/font]

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I'm sure someone will suggest a better way, but you might call ProcessList() before and after each ShellExecute(), Find the msiexec.exe addition each time and maintain a list of PID's and program names. You could then exert individual control over each process.

Edit: This assumes you're manually kicking off one instance of msiexec at a time, and can therefore "keep inventory". If one call to your installer package generates all three msiexec processes, then I'm at a loss how one would externally determine the identity of each process.

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Hi, Syed. If you use the following it will wait until the MSI has completed before moving on to the next line of your script:

ShellExecuteWait("msiexec.exe", '/i "' & @ScriptDir & '<MSI name>.msi" /qn')

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Hi, Syed. If you use the following it will wait until the MSI has completed before moving on to the next line of your script:

ShellExecuteWait("msiexec.exe", '/i "' & @ScriptDir & '.msi" /qn')

This works awesome and as i expected! when i use the above one the application get installs successfully but it returns the value 0. is there any specific reason ?

Thank you,Regards,[font="Garamond"][size="4"]K.Syed Ibrahim.[/size][/font]

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ShellExecuteWait returns the exitcode of the program you run, usually if a program completes ok, it returns 0 in the exitcode. ShellExecute on the other hand returns 1 if successful, but that's because it doesn't wait until the program finishes before continuing, and it has no way to retrieve the ExitCode.

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Hi, Syed. Chek out this link. It shows you all of the exit codes you can expect when using the Windows Installer engine. As BrewManNH noted, for an MSI the exit code of 0 is a good thing :oops:

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JLogan3o13, nice find on that link, definitely going into the bookmarks.

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Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays.  -  ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script.  -  Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label.  -  _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file  -  SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor  -  GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI.  -   Latin Square password generator

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Nice one guys! Thanks for the help! JLogan3o13 will this error codes will be captured by the macro @error ?

I would suggest, rather than relying on @error, to pull the information you want from the event viewer. Something like this would work well for an installation of Notepad++, for example.

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <EventLog.au3>
Local $log, $aEvent

ShellExecuteWait("msiexec.exe", '/i "' & @ScriptDir & 'Notepad++.msi" /qb')

    $log = _EventLog__Open("", "Application")
    $aEvent = _EventLog__Read($log, True, False) ; read last event
  For $i = 1 To 10
   If $aEvent[10] <> "MsiInstaller" Then
    $aEvent = _EventLog__Read($log, True, False) ; read last event
   Else
    MsgBox(0, "Installation Results", $aEvent[13])
    _EventLog__Close($log)
    Exit
   EndIf
  Next

JLogan3o13, nice find on that link, definitely going into the bookmarks.

Glad it was helpful. The parent site where I got that link, www.AppDeploy.com is a great resource. It maintains a huge database of applications; how they can be repackaged/delivered, install and uninstall switches, reg keys, etc. It is the homepage for all of my repackagers :oops:

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Hi, Syed. If you use the following it will wait until the MSI has completed before moving on to the next line of your script:

ShellExecuteWait("msiexec.exe", '/i "' & @ScriptDir & '<MSI name>.msi" /qn')

All your suggestion helped me lot! i have one more doubt? i have created a tool which will uninstall the application by retriving the details from Registry. Like "Msiexec.exe /X "PRoduct Key" . i don't how to use Shell Executewait to handle! will the below will work?

ShellExecuteWait("msiexec.exe", '/x "' & "" & 'product code" REBOOT=ReallySuppress /qb!')
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Hi, Syed. Very close :oops: It should be something like this.

ShellExecuteWait("msiexec.exe", '/x "<productID>" REBOOT=ReallySupress /qb')

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Hi, Syed. Very close :oops: It should be something like this.

ShellExecuteWait("msiexec.exe", '/x "<productID>" REBOOT=ReallySupress /qb')

Thanks a lot JLogan3o13. i will try this for sure :bye:

Thank you,Regards,[font="Garamond"][size="4"]K.Syed Ibrahim.[/size][/font]

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