Office 2010 Installer Channel Switcher

Well it depends on how big the iso is and the speed of your harddrive. How long was it running before you stopped it?

 

Kill the channelswitcher process and cdimage process and try again, maybe it's a one time thing.
I could add a new version of cdimage, but since MS used an older version for the original images I also used that older version.

 

Before I make a video, can you tell me the exact steps you do?

And sorry, but I don't much time now to make the new version. But I promise it will be there when I've time again.

 

.net 4.0 isn't the problem cause actually .net 4 is a complete new version (instead of 3.5, which in fact still was an evolution of 2.0).

Can you check the add additional files/folders checkbox and see what's inside the folder?

 

Do you get "ChannelSwitchersWorkingDirectory" in the same directory as the exe? And does it actually extract the exe? You can look inside the workingdirectory in the directory "0" to see if the files get extracted there.

 

I know it just need to be extracted to the updates directory, if it wouldn't work like that then I weren't going to add it. I'll just make a browse button like the input files now but one that accepts only valid sp1 exes or isos. Other updates are indeed the user's problem then.

How are you going to include langpacks in the installer?

 

I'm now for the first time downloading a langpack. But I know the language that's forced to install is the language in which the installwizard runs. And that languages depends on the Office.xx-xx folders.

If you have for example both Office.en-us and Office.nl-nl, then setup will look at windows' locale settings and choose a language. By only leaving the Office.xx-xx folder in the language you want and deleting the others, setup has no choice and will always use that language. So you can let the user choose which is the forced language, that's a feature I'm going to add to switcher 1.3 also.

But I'm going to have a deeper look at it. I think when we manipulate some files inside Office.xx-xx directories (filenames, xml-files, directory name), we can make those files look like an other language. So when for example the english Office.en-us folder looks like french, but french isn't one of the included languages, no language is forced (yes french is but it isn't included).

The setup is of cource running in english as we started with english files, but even english isn't forced cause setup thinks it's french.

I hope this is going to work, cause there are 2 possibilities:
1) Setup thinks it runs in a language that isn't included => it can't force a language so no lang is forced
2) Setup thinks it runs in a language that isn't included => it hangs at an error

Can you follow my reasoning?

And your toolkit is nice work btw

EDIT: OK I was stupid, was downloading the langpack from emule, now found the digitalriver links which are a loooot faster

EDIT: Just saw something, the proofing.xx-xx directories are also dependend on the isntalled language, but maybe if we merge them together setup won't have a choise also (like with the office.xx-x dir) and you'll always have all proofings for all included languages, whatever language you install. But that's not for 1.3 anymore.

 

Is the sha1 of the iso c9a8c94328168041e09b3f4a9a529f6a1945c270?
Cause I tried it again 5mins ago with that iso and I have no problems with it. But I know sometimes it doesn't work, but I don't know why. Most of the time it works when you try on another pc.

@tomah: It should accept isos with both x86 and x64

EDIT: Actually I do know when it fails, it happens right after a file/folder move or delete operation. It can be solved by letting the app wait a bit right after such an operation (now it waits 10ms every time), but that's not a very clean method. I thought 10ms solved the problem, but appearently there are still problems with it, so in 1.3 I'll add in an option to choose how long to wait. If it fails with the default 10ms for you then you can increase it untill it runs fine.