Summary

Synopsis

In some cases, it becomes necessary to disable a particular source control provider if it deviates from the Microsoft SCC specifications and causes crashes in InstallShield. This article describes how to accomplish this.

Discussion

1. Locate the list of Source Control providers in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SourceCodeControlProvider

2. Under this key, locate the 'ProviderRegKey' in the root of the above key for the default provider, or find other provider's registry keys under the 'InstalledSCCProviders' key.

3. Navigate to the Key(s) listed in step 2, and locate the 'SCCServerPath' value (note: the path will generally be relative to HKLM). This will contain the name of a *.dll.

4. Take the name of the *.dll, and add it to the following registry value where ## represents the version of InstallShield you're using (assuming 2008 = 14, 2009 = 15,etc.)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\InstallShield\##.0\Professional\SCCProvidersToIgnore

The entries in this key will be just the name of the *.dll, delimited by the pipe character ("|"):

SCCDLL1.dll|SCCDLL2.dll