Re: [WiX-users] Preserve xml config settings on major upgrade

Alex Ivanoff [alex.ivan...@shavlik.com] > What is the best way to preserve xml config settings on major upgrade? There were some e-mail chains about this recently. Two major choices were offered. One was to use the windows registry to persist the data for retrieval during the upgrade. I wou

[WiX-users] Collecting info for multiple SQL Servers

Hi all, I have an install where it may need to run SQL scripts on up to 2 different SQL servers. I feel pretty comfortable collecting the information for one of those four with a UI screen, but I'm hoping to reuse the screen for all SQL Servers. From what little I know about UI development in

[WiX-users] Heat and Directory Harvesting - Design Rationale

Hi everyone, I have noticed that heat will harvest a folder and all subfolders and put the files in individual components. While following the tutorials, I had learned that generally you put all files that reside in the same folder into a component together, as long as they're your "atomic uni

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall password prompt

Have you considered solving this by Windows security policy management? (assuming you are deploying within an organization) -Original Message- From: Yu, Brian [mailto:b...@easyscreen.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:10 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sub

Re: [WiX-users] Light.exe emits seemingly bogus warning

I was under the impression that's what the EmbedCab attribute does. That mostly makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 2:56 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade: some files are randomly not installed

> I appreciate if anyone can tell me why some times some files are not > installed during Major Upgrade. Perhaps you could try isolating the problem, by taking each version of the product that you've released so far and installing, then uninstalling on a "clean" machine? I like to use virtual

[WiX-users] Light.exe emits seemingly bogus warning

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[WiX-users] Major Upgrades

able full of important data that I installed with the old version, just to turn around and recreate it empty in the new version. Should I try to dream up a way to detect its an upgrade and uninstall differently, or is there a best practice that I am missing? Thanks, Jeff Reed | Field Engineeri

[WiX-users] REINSTALL, REINSTALLMODE, and component reference counting

od" and watch them for myself. Thanks, Jeff Reed | Field Engineering | Duck Creek Technologies | ree...@duckcreektech.com The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material.  Any revie