Re: [WiX-users] Questions on Why WiX Installer Combines the VSAddIns into One MSI

2009-05-14 Thread Rob Mensching
It will remove them if you do a major upgrade. The old "cached" package is used for uninstall (that would have the VS2005 support) and the new package won't (so VS2005 support won't get added). That's one, of several, reasons we only do major upgrades in the WiX MSI. jnewton wrote: > I've been

[WiX-users] Questions on Why WiX Installer Combines the VSAddIns into One MSI

2009-05-14 Thread jnewton
I've been looking over the WiX setup code which is used to create the WiX Toolset installer and had a best practice question regarding putting all support for Visual Studio versions into one MSI. WiX supports VS2005 and VS2008 and installs addins all in the same MSI. I'm actually in the same boat