Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling

2008-05-31 Thread Bob Arnson
Weinstein, Scott wrote: > For some reason my install packages is not detecting the prior install, > and the upgrade process is not working. I'm unable to see what I've done > wrong and hoping it's a simple thing. > Generate a verbose log during installation of the upgrade package and see what

Re: [WiX-users] Is there a way to change the File Description?

2008-05-31 Thread Bob Arnson
Steven Harris wrote: > Right clicking on this file and going to properties, then to Details shows > that its "File Description" is "My Application", which it has picked up from > the resources when the file was built. > > Is there a way to change the File Description for a file in WIX? > That

Re: [WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

2008-05-31 Thread Bob Arnson
tsollas wrote: >Display="hidden" > Absent="disallow" AllowAdvertise="no" > InstallDefault="followParent"> > > > > See http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/05/16/make-sure-features-are-always-enabled-so-they-can-be-removed/. -- sig://boB http://joyof

Re: [WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

2008-05-31 Thread tsollas
chrpai wrote: > > Do you have any feature conditions? A quick examination and only this > jumped out at me: > > First Uninstall: > > MSI (s) (64:30) [12:09:18:771]: Feature: Service.Config.Upgrade.Feature; > Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null > MSI (s) (64:30) [12:09

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling

2008-05-31 Thread Chris Mumford
One small difference that I can see between yours and mine which is working is that you don't specify the Language in your UpgradeVersion elements. Also, this isn't required to upgrade, but to prevent downgrade: NEWAPPFOUND Just making sure you had that too. On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:36 AM,

Re: [WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

2008-05-31 Thread Christopher Painter
Do you have any feature conditions? A quick examination and only this jumped out at me: First Uninstall: MSI (s) (64:30) [12:09:18:771]: Feature: Service.Config.Upgrade.Feature; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null MSI (s) (64:30) [12:09:18:771]: Feature: WebService.Con

Re: [WiX-users] Unistall user created files

2008-05-31 Thread Rob Mensching
Not in all cases. Roaming profiles will thwart the perfect solution. In general, I have seen it discouraged to go mucking with other user's profile since the current profile cannot know the exact state all of the other profiles are in. One of a few reasons to leave user data behind. Of course

Re: [WiX-users] Need to uinstall twice after Major Upgrade

2008-05-31 Thread tsollas
chrpai wrote: > > If you zip and attach the logs I could take a look at it for you. > http://www.nabble.com/file/p17576836/logs.zip logs.zip Done, thanks a ton for looking at this. There's 5 logs, a clean install/uninstall, and then an upgrade install, and the two uninstalls afterwards. --

[WiX-users] Unistall user created files

2008-05-31 Thread Jason Walsh
Hi, On a computer I have two users, User 1 and User 2. When they run my application they can create a shortcut that will run it on startup. So a shortcut is created in the Startup group. Is it possible to delete this shortcuts when the application in unistalled? Thanks, --