A full sample of Setup Factory project for a full process installation

[leopini]

Hello,

Where could we find a full sample project where further features be executed than only basic ones:
1. Pre-install MS SQL Server allowing to select Server Name from a combo, to enter User ID and Password.
2. Run a SQL Script in order to create a database and populate its tables.
3. Execute the basic installation process
4. Re-write a web.config file according to local variables.

We are evaluating ten days ago this product but it has been exhausting trying to make it work and now we feel that we are wasting our time because it is very hard to find these features in this forum because of lack of information about it.

Please, let me know if those features are not able to execute your product.

Thanks!,

Leonardo
PM

[Ulrich]

1. Pre-install MS SQL Server allowing to select Server Name from a combo, to enter User ID and Password.

If you are installing SQL Server, why would you want the user to pre-select the server name from a combo? You could offer an Input/Edit field with the default name, which the user could change to something else if he desires to do so. I don't see the sense in using a combo here.

2. Run a SQL Script in order to create a database and populate its tables.

Check Google for "DTM ODBC SQL runner" as one example.

3. Execute the basic installation process
4. Re-write a web.config file according to local variables.

The web.config is a XML file in UTF-8 encoding. Setup Factory uses the Lua scripting language, which does not support UTF-8 directly. If IIS does not complain if the XML is saved in ANSI encoding, then you can use the provided XML actions for creating the file. Otherwise, you need to use a plugin to read the UTF-8 file to a ANSI string, perform all the XML actions on it, and then save the changed string back to a UTF-8 file; or create a new file from scratch and save it in UTF-8 using the same method.

Ulrich