Generating setup script... It took half hour!!

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Sarah Bram

I have tried to uninstall VS.NET
It was sitting 30 minutes "Generating setup script."
-What's this crap!?

And another 15 minutes "Updating visual studio..."
-Updating the one I am uninstalling!?

Why can't it work in a straight forward way,
like Inno Setup for example?

Regards,
Sarah
 
coz this is is the xpected behavior of windows installer. Windows Installer
takes good care of the integrity of the system. The "generating setup
script" phase writes the installation script that will be executed by the
Windows Installer running as a service. The "Updating Visual Studio" phase
is displayed when the generated script is actually executed by the MsiExec
running as a service.

Look at the bright side, Windows Installer gives you some nifty features
like advertisement, elevated privileges, auto-repair, etc.

Neo.
 
One of the things it does is take care of the possibility that you might hit the
cancel button 10 seconds before it's all uninstalled and then it will restore it
all. It might all go quicker if the DISABLEROLLBACK property is set, but I've
never tried that (assuming you don't want to cancel the uninstall).
 
Phil said:
One of the things it does is take care of the possibility that you might hit the
cancel button 10 seconds before it's all uninstalled and then it will restore it
all. It might all go quicker if the DISABLEROLLBACK property is set, but I've
never tried that (assuming you don't want to cancel the uninstall).
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Thanks for the responses,
btw, why would anybody cancel the uninstall process in the last minute!?
unless the msi itself start uninstalling the application without user
selecting it to uninstall!! I think, anything is possible with msi!!

If he or she uninstalls by mistake,
is it that hard to install it again!?

hmmm, wait a minute, installing again with msi!!??
I better cancel it!!

I am sorry, I am frustrated with msi.
I am a victim of msi even though I don't use it for my own setups!!

Thanks,
Sarah
 
I sympathize, I know that installing, uninstalling and repairing Visual
Studio is really really slow. I think it's the longest I've ever come
across. I don't know why - it doesn't seem to be just that there are a lot
of files, when compared with other setups.
 
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