Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Garman
..] > > > > What exactly do you mean by this? What do the transforms do? > > > > Its my experience that if you want to manipulate a base MSI with > > transforms that you have to do this with a bootstrapper. By the time > > the MSI is executing, its already too late. >

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode

2010-01-26 Thread Richard
In article , "Blair" writes: > If the non-transformed instance of the product is installed, the Upgrade > table will never be evaluated because the FindRelatedProducts action skips > itself for maintenance mode operations. To some degree I'm surprised that > what you are doing for installat

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode

2010-01-26 Thread Blair
AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode Hi, Thanks for your interest guys, I'll try to explain a bit better... @Blair: "Do the transforms change UpgradeCode?"...no. So my msi installs application 'Fo

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Garman
ge- > From: Kevin Garman [mailto:gar...@scadaware.com] > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:10 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode > > Well, what I tried was a CA that ran before FindRelatedProd

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode

2010-01-26 Thread Blair
Your transforms change your UpgradeCode? -Original Message- From: Kevin Garman [mailto:gar...@scadaware.com] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:10 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode Well, what I tried

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode

2010-01-25 Thread Richard
In article <1264193852.10007.0.ca...@garman-linux>, Kevin Garman writes: > I have a multi-instance (transforms) installer and [...] What exactly do you mean by this? What do the transforms do? Its my experience that if you want to manipulate a base MSI with transforms that you have to do

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Garman
Well, what I tried was a CA that ran before FindRelatedProducts. This CA prompted for and set the TRANSFORMS variable in hopes that when the FindRelatedProducts executed it would find the instance already installed and go into maintenance mode. In my test however (maybe it was flawed), it seemed

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to go into Modify Mode

2010-01-22 Thread Blair
You would need some sort of action that runs after the selection that will determine if the selected instance is installed. Whether that is FindRelatedProducts or some CA you write... -Original Message- From: Kevin Garman [mailto:gar...@scadaware.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 12:58