Re: [WiX-users] Question: Migrating Existing Installer to Windows Installer

2006-07-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Rick Glos wrote: We just released version 5.0 of our product.  Spending 6 weeks updating our installer (we have a custom C# installer).  I can see our new customers instead using a new .msi for later versions (5.5, 6.0, etc).  What do I do about our existing customers when they w

Re: [WiX-users] Question: Migrating Existing Installer to Windows Installer

2006-07-28 Thread Rob Hamflett
When we moved over to MSI we had to deal with existing InstallShield installs. I got round the problem by looking in the registry for the key InstallShield writes under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall using a RegistrySearch. I then used the set property as

[WiX-users] Question: Migrating Existing Installer to Windows Installer

2006-07-27 Thread Rick Glos
Hello, I’ve spent the last two days getting familiar with WiX, the windows installer, and going through the great tutorial on WiX (http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/).  I especially liked the article posted a year ago (http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dn