tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post8447302469890175808..comments2009-11-20T15:22:22.396-06:00Christopher Painterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167478740431444267chrpai@yahoo.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post-58396087304785843852009-11-20T15:07:54.302-06:002009-11-20T15:07:54.302-06:00Jonathan,<br /><br />You aren&#39;t missing anything. I&#39;m a long-time Wise for Windows Installer user (I was even a forum advisor for several years there), but since that product is pretty much dead for all intents and purposes, I checked out InstallAware. Let me tell you what a frustrating two weeks it was while I was evaluating. No direct access to the tables. Their support people tell me that I don&#39;t need to do that. I&#39;ve been doing Windows Installer for about 8 years now, and I know how valuable direct table access is. Then there was the bug that corrupted my project randomly with a weird Web Block error. I wasn&#39;t even making a Web Install, so I&#39;m not sure how web blocks came into the picture. I had to recreate my eval project several times. After another couple of false starts, I just gave up and turfed it.<br /><br />I don&#39;t know where to turn now. WfWI is dead, IS is crap and IA also seems to be crap. Time to start doing it by hand with WiX??Bill MacEachernnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post-6886098388728526392009-10-27T12:55:23.808-05:002009-10-27T12:55:23.808-05:00Unfortunately, I requested a license and did not receive one, I wonder if the licenses have actually been sent out yet.Jonathan Thorpenoreply@blogger.com