Re: [WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before installing a new one

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Painter
n't come up with any good reason for this installer choice. Abubakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/2007 10:46 PM To "John Lalande" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

Re: [WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before installing a new one

2007-11-27 Thread Abubakar
>* > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 11/26/2007 10:46 PM > To > "John Lalande" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc > wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject > Re: [WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before installing a > new one > > > > &

Re: [WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before installing a new one

2007-11-26 Thread Kelly Leahy
;t come up with any good reason for this installer choice. Abubakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/2007 10:46 PM To "John Lalande" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject Re: [WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before inst

Re: [WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before installing a new one

2007-11-26 Thread Abubakar
Thanks for the xml code, I have followed this and it is working in one scenerio. But tell me, should this work if product1 was installed using "just me" and the product2 is being installed using "Everyone"? Cuz i am testing this and this the case in which my product1 is not getting uninstalled. ..

Re: [WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before installing a new one

2007-11-26 Thread John Lalande
In theory (and in my projects), simply copy what you already have and replace 'product2guid' (which I hope is a uuid), with the UpgradeCode of the product you want uninstalled. In the new entry remove the UpgradeVersion that uses the NEWERPRODUCTFOUND property and replace PREVIOUSVERSIONSINSTALLED

Re: [WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before installing a new one

2007-11-26 Thread Abubakar
Hi, can you provide me the tags necessary to do this? Right now my Upgrade tags look like this: regards, ..ab On Nov 26, 2007 7:16 PM, John Lalande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ab > > It is much simpler then what you are proposing. Simply add the UpgadeCode

Re: [WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before installing a new one

2007-11-26 Thread Christopher Painter
In theory it's that simple, but in practice there are many possible pain points in a major upgrade. It mostly depends on where you sequence RemoveExistingProducts and whether the upstream build process properly versioned all of the files that the install is consuming. Garbage into the costin

Re: [WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before installing a new one

2007-11-26 Thread John Lalande
ab It is much simpler then what you are proposing. Simply add the UpgadeCode of the old product to the Upgrade table of your new product. The old one will be uninstalled in the same manner as a previous version...silently during the RemoveExistingProducts action. John --

[WiX-users] uninstalling a product silently before installing a new one

2007-11-26 Thread Abubakar
Hi, I have a product1, from my company, installed on some computer. Now my company makes a new product2 and wants to install it on the same machine (where product1 exists), but the condition is that the product1 should be first uninstalled. The requirement is that the uninstall cant happen as a sep