Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install

An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install Hi Blair, Thanks a lot for your help. I will try to use the path search custom action as you said. I am not clear how to create a custom action native dll. I just create an empty project in

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install

ktober 2009 13:39 An: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install Are these services as in Windows Services, controlled by the Service Control Manager? They have APIs that let you discover the run state of controlled services, as

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are) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com] Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:21 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install Hi Blair, Here I would like to explain you the reason why I use this Custom Action. This CA is to call an exe

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From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install Hi Blair, Thanks for your suggestion. I did the change as you said, set OnlyDetect to "

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ji...@ge.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install Hi Blair, Thanks for your suggestion. I did the change as you said, set OnlyDetect to "yes". Now the new install will not cause the

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where, to reduce the chance of overwriting old versions. -Original Message- From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:05 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install Hi

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ML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install I set one property in my wix project: And set the custom actions as: PREVIOUSFOUND AND INSTALLDIR When Version 1 installed in PathA, and try to install version 2 to PathB, from verbose log, it shows MyCA will not

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versions. -Original Message- From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:05 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install Hi Blair, Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I mad

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this case? Regards, Chunyan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009 13:05 An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install Hi Blair, Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I made a mistake.

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e.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009 12:48 An: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install I don't see the difference between Case 1 and Case 2, except that the installation directories are switched. Four more questi

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e.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:45 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install Hi Blair, Probably my use-case is special. My software should be able to install flexiably. It can be installed as following: Case 1: Version 1 in

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om] Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009 02:35 An: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install So you need upgrades to not replace previous installations? In that case they are not upgrades. I'm still trying to understand yo

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when they have an older version installed? -Original Message- From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:48 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install Hi Rob, I think

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IR" will do the registrysearch for all installed version. How to realize it? Regards, Chunyan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Oktober 2009 10:39 An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] Upg

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for Windows Installer XML toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install 1. Personally, I would highly suggest you change your application so this CustomAction is unnecessary. You are in for a world of pain in the long run. 2. The Registry element has been deprecated in WiX v3. The

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hould I set the condition "INSTALLDIR" to > somewhere, like I did for custom action? > > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009 13:19 > An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install

hunyan (GE Healthcare) Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009 13:19 An: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install When I searched in Google, I found some one has the same problem as me. And the suggested solution is to define a prop

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install

When I searched in Google, I found some one has the same problem as me. And the suggested solution is to define a property using RegistrySearch. And also define a registry with the install path [APPLICATIONFOLDER]. So that the upgrade will only happen when the registry with path found. I tried