Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009 22:00 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade I admit that I am not a Windows Installer expert, but I'm not sure that I understand the statement about "the price you pay" for a major upgrade. My client app installati

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

Don Benson wrote: > >> I also do Major upgrades *all* the time. We have a large COM, COM+, >> VB6 >> application and I don't dare play games with COM+ registries as I value >> my >> time too much :P It's a requirement for us developers to move back and >> forth along the versions and I want to

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

> I also do Major upgrades *all* the time. We have a large COM, COM+, > VB6 > application and I don't dare play games with COM+ registries as I value > my > time too much :P It's a requirement for us developers to move back and > forth along the versions and I want to force uninstall our product

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

Neil Sleightholm wrote: > > Where do you have RemoveExistingProducts scheduled? Have you tried it > after InstallValidate so that is removes everything before reinstalling. > > Neil > > Neil Sleightholm > X2 Systems Limited > n...@x2systems.com > > > _

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

of features to be available on the ComPlusApplication element. Are these ideas totally incompatible with how Windows Installer works? Sincerely, - Don Benson - From: Neil Sleightholm (via Nabble) [mailto:ml-user+58265-1563573...@n2.nabble.com] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 4:18 PM To: Don Benson Subject: Re

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

experience. Neil -Original Message- From: Don Benson [mailto:dben...@trulinx.com] Sent: 23 February 2009 20:25 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade This suggestion is problematic when the installation incudes .NET assemblie

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

This suggestion is problematic when the installation incudes .NET assemblies that are registered in GAC or native DLLs registered as side-by-side (SxS) assemblies. If either of these assemblies does not change in the major upgrade, the assembly disappears after the major upgrade, leaving you with

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:48 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Yea, that's what thought. Well seeing as at least one person thinks the same as me I shall submit a bug and see what comes of that :-)

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

internals of the COM+ custom action work but this > does sound like a bug to me. > > Neil > > -Original Message- > From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] > Sent: 09 February 2009 13:40 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subjec

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

9, 2009 10:47 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Yea, I recall when I tried looking up the ComPlus tables when using the NAnt MSI task they seemed a bit weird, but then before I did any real experimentation I

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

Yea, I recall when I tried looking up the ComPlus tables when using the NAnt MSI task they seemed a bit weird, but then before I did any real experimentation I discovered WiX and figured, who cares ... that'll do the job for me instead :-D lol. On Monday 09 February 2009 17:18:26 Rob Mensching

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Good thinking, that worked. The next question is, should this be necessary? Is the ComPlusExtension using its own custom actions or something, rather than using stuff like the ComPlus tables provided by Windows Installer? Just seems to me that it shou

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

ebruary 09, 2009 05:40 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Good thinking, that worked. The next question is, should this be necessary? Is the ComPlusExtension using its own custom actions or something, rather

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

Good thinking, that worked. The next question is, should this be necessary? Is the ComPlusExtension using its own custom actions or something, rather than using stuff like the ComPlus tables provided by Windows Installer? Just seems to me that it should be able to handle this in the same way somet

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

Where do you have RemoveExistingProducts scheduled? Have you tried it after InstallValidate so that is removes everything before reinstalling. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com From: Adam Burton [mailto