Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Neil Sleightholm
2009 22:00 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade I admit that I am not a Windows Installer expert, but I'm not sure that I understand the statement about "the price you pay" for a major upgrade. My client app installati

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Roy Abou Assaly
Don Benson wrote: > >> I also do Major upgrades *all* the time. We have a large COM, COM+, >> VB6 >> application and I don't dare play games with COM+ registries as I value >> my >> time too much :P It's a requirement for us developers to move back and >> forth along the versions and I want to

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Don Benson
> I also do Major upgrades *all* the time. We have a large COM, COM+, > VB6 > application and I don't dare play games with COM+ registries as I value > my > time too much :P It's a requirement for us developers to move back and > forth along the versions and I want to force uninstall our product

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Roy Abou Assaly
<mailto:n...@x2systems.com> > > > > > From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade > > Hi, > I have

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Don Benson
dEmail.jtp?type=node&node=2374421&i=1> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade This suggestion is problematic when the installation incudes .NET assemblies that are registered in GAC or native DLLs registered as side-by-side (SxS) assemblies. If either of these

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Neil Sleightholm
experience. Neil -Original Message- From: Don Benson [mailto:dben...@trulinx.com] Sent: 23 February 2009 20:25 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade This suggestion is problematic when the installation incudes .NET assemblie

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Don Benson
adz...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade > > > > Hi, > I have been working on an installer for a COM application. The installer > contains a few .NET assembli

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Fredrik Grohn
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:48 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Yea, that's what thought. Well seeing as at least one person thinks the same as me I shall submit a bug and see what comes of that :-)

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Burton
internals of the COM+ custom action work but this > does sound like a bug to me. > > Neil > > -Original Message- > From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] > Sent: 09 February 2009 13:40 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subjec

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Rob Mensching
9, 2009 10:47 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Yea, I recall when I tried looking up the ComPlus tables when using the NAnt MSI task they seemed a bit weird, but then before I did any real experimentation I

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Burton
Yea, I recall when I tried looking up the ComPlus tables when using the NAnt MSI task they seemed a bit weird, but then before I did any real experimentation I discovered WiX and figured, who cares ... that'll do the job for me instead :-D lol. On Monday 09 February 2009 17:18:26 Rob Mensching

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Neil Sleightholm
leightholm > X2 Systems Limited > n...@x2systems.com <mailto:n...@x2systems.com> > > > > > From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] COM Pl

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Rob Mensching
ebruary 09, 2009 05:40 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Good thinking, that worked. The next question is, should this be necessary? Is the ComPlusExtension using its own custom actions or something, rather

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Burton
@x2systems.com <mailto:n...@x2systems.com> > > > > > From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade >

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Hi, I have been working on an installer for a COM application. The installer contains a few .NET assemblies, with a couple configuration fil

[WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Burton
Hi, I have been working on an installer for a COM application. The installer contains a few .NET assemblies, with a couple configuration files and installs a COM application that uses the .NET assemblies (with the ComPlusExtension). Due to our development not being so strict I figured it would prob