Re: [WiX-users] Shared Attribute handling while Upgrade

2010-08-09 Thread Wilson, Phil
olset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Shared Attribute handling while Upgrade This is a major upgrade. I am sharing these binaries with the other installers which are MSI only. Swapnil Sankla | Software Engineer | Persistent Systems Limited swapnil_san...@persistent.co.in | Cell: +91  9960851096 Persistent Sy

Re: [WiX-users] Shared Attribute handling while Upgrade

2010-08-09 Thread Swapnil Sankla
delivery www.persistentsys.com -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:31 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Shared Attribute handling while Upgrade Sounds like a component ru

Re: [WiX-users] Shared Attribute handling while Upgrade

2010-08-06 Thread Blair
Sounds like a component rule problem. Is this a major or a minor upgrade? And, are you sharing these binaries with other installers that are not/may not be MSI or that don't supply MSI components for their installation? -Original Message- From: Swapnil Sankla [mailto:swapnil_san...@persist

Re: [WiX-users] Shared Attribute handling while Upgrade

2010-08-06 Thread Wilson, Phil
You must be marking them shared using what becomes the msidbComponentAttributesSharedDllRefCount bit in the component table. You don't need this if the file is always deployed with an MSI-based setup because MSI does sharing based on component guids. The only reason this Dll ref count exists is