Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-05 Thread Rob Mensching
pher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves > attention? E-Mail Me > > > > - Original Message ---- > From: Rob Mensching > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Sent: T

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Your msi should be caches on the users machine in c:\windows\installer iirc but it will have an odd name. Check whether you can find it. When it is cached if think all the binaries are removed so that it is only the install logic, if you are doing anything that runs one of the binaries on uninst

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Painter
e From: Rob Mensching To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 2:59:11 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI Very true. That's why Burn caches the MSI for you. Minimizing source prompts is good as well..

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Rob Mensching
ndher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:01 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI > > Is the upgrade shipped as an MSI or an MSP? I've seen that happ

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Wilson, Phil
ng on. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:01 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI Is the upgrade shipped as an MSI or an

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Rob Mensching
otland Science Park, > Glasgow G20 0SP > Email Disclaimer > > -Original Message- > From: John Lalande [mailto:johnlala...@gmail.com] > Sent: 04 November 2010 17:37 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI &g

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread Pally Sandher
rk, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: John Lalande [mailto:johnlala...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 November 2010 17:37 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI I have been unable to recreate this issue here, but I

[WiX-users] upgrade requesting location of previous MSI

2010-11-04 Thread John Lalande
I have been unable to recreate this issue here, but I am getting reports of users attempting to upgrade to the next version of our product getting a dialog to browse to the location of the previous version's MSI file, which is no longer where the installing user had it. This is causing the upgrade