A problem with Installer in Vista

[AlexZhur]

Hi All,

Maybe somebody has faced with such problem as me.
I have a .net project under MS VS 2003.
There is a setup project in the solution which has two nested installers.
One of them installs services and second one performs some necessary adjustments.
The problem occurs in Vista Business edition. The istaller is hanging up without any diagnostics.
Of cource I suspected the problem connects with the security restrictions in Vista. I've tried to decrease them but it doesn't help.
So finally I created a dummy test solution with one setup project and one nested installer and the problem was reproduced. BUT!!! When I converted my test solution to VS 2005 everything became OK.
Also I tried to install my services manually using Unstallutil and got the following message

An exception occurred during the Install phase.
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access denied.

Maybe somebody knows what it means and will be able to help me.

Thanks in advance,
Alexander.

[tattooedscorpdc]

I suggest utilizing either VS 2005 or 2008 as they were built with VIsta in mind. If this is not an option you can always start up in safe mode possibly disabling the security features that are preventing the install and install from there

Good Luck!

Larry
Although I work for Microsoft as an Architect Evangelist, my opionions and occasional errors are my own and are not to miscontrued as Microsoft's