Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-26 Thread Hoover, Jacob
lto:tmarkm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 11:25 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades Hi Phil, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Phil Wilson wrote: > An early sequencing of the upg

Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-26 Thread Tobias Markmann
Hi Phil, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Phil Wilson wrote: > An early sequencing of the upgrade (such as after InstallIntialize) is > more or less the same as uninstalling the old product then installing > the new one. Guids don't really matter much. > > After InstallExecute isn't like that. A

Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-26 Thread Phil Wilson
tamp and hash checking? > > -Original Message- > From: Tobias Markmann [mailto:tmarkm...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 7:08 AM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons > with Up

Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-26 Thread Hoover, Jacob
lto:tmarkm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 7:08 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades Hi Rob, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Rob Mensching wrote: > Schedule your upgrade late

Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-26 Thread Tobias Markmann
Hi Rob, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Rob Mensching wrote: > Schedule your upgrade late and carefully adhere to the Component Rules. > Thanks for the hint. I googled a bit and read up things on MajorUpgrade scheduling [0] and Component Rules, including [1] and [2]. So I've tried scheduling

Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-25 Thread Rob Mensching
] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 4:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades Hi, I'm currently trying to fix remaining issues in our WiX-based installer. The current issue I'm trying to fix is WiX/MSI beh

[WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-25 Thread Tobias Markmann
Hi, I'm currently trying to fix remaining issues in our WiX-based installer. The current issue I'm trying to fix is WiX/MSI behavior when upgrading an installation. Upgrading mostly does an uninstallation of the previous version and installs the new version. This automatically means that shortcu