Re: [WiX-users] Selectively uninstalling components during major upgrade

[mailto:c...@pandion.im] Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 4:11 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Selectively uninstalling components during major upgrade Hi Blair, Thanks again for your advice. Sadly the late scheduling causes too many other pro

Re: [WiX-users] Selectively uninstalling components during major upgrade

ate" placement of RemoveExistingProducts requires a > more strict observance of the component rules. > > -Original Message- > From: Sebastiaan Deckers [mailto:c...@pandion.im] > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:11 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer

Re: [WiX-users] Selectively uninstalling components during major upgrade

2010 2:11 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Selectively uninstalling components during major upgrade Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately the registry keys still seem to get deleted during the upgrade. I'm using a RemoveRegistryKey/removeOnUninstall

Re: [WiX-users] Selectively uninstalling components during major upgrade

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately the registry keys still seem to get deleted during the upgrade. I'm using a RemoveRegistryKey/removeOnUninstall with the "NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE" Condition. My guess is that the Condition gets evaluated at installation time instead of during the upgrade. Is that

Re: [WiX-users] Selectively uninstalling components during major upgrade

The registry removal is probably occurring in the package being removed. The upgrading package's properties are not all passed to the packages being removed. The package being removed is given a property "UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE" which is the product code of the upgrading package. If you add "AND NOT