Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI

2010-07-26 Thread Lukas Haase
it at all from the InstallExecuteSequence. >> >> If the other setup package is not-at-all MSI, there is nothing to pass > >> to Windows Installer, since WI can only deal with MSI packages, and >> you will need to execute the uninstall executable somehow/somewhere. >> &g

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI

2010-07-26 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
[mailto:lukasha...@gmx.at] Sent: 26 July 2010 11:44 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI Hi, I changed my approach a little bit. For reference: This is what I added to my wxs file: And this is my small CheckSpecialist.c

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI

2010-07-26 Thread Lukas Haase
Dear dB, Thank you for your comment. You are right, maybe a bootstrapper would have been the better apporach ... I will have a look at dotNetInstaller. Am 23.07.2010 16:43, schrieb dB.: > Having dealt with a similar scenario with InstallShield, the best I can > suggest is to bootstrap uninstal

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI

2010-07-26 Thread Lukas Haase
x.at] > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 5:18 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI > > Dear Blair, > > Thank you for the hint! I will replace my MessageBox-call prompt with > MsiProcessMessage/WcaProcessM

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI

2010-07-25 Thread Blair
l executable somehow/somewhere. -Original Message- From: Lukas Haase [mailto:lukasha...@gmx.at] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 5:18 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI Dear Blair, Thank you for the hint! I will replace my Me

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI

2010-07-25 Thread Lukas Haase
> From: Lukas Haase [mailto:lukasha...@gmx.at] > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 12:47 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI > > Dear Blair, > > Am 22.07.2010 01:04, schrieb Blair: >> 1. You can b

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI

2010-07-23 Thread dB .
Having dealt with a similar scenario with InstallShield, the best I can suggest is to bootstrap uninstall. You can use dotNetInstaller (http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com) and write a command line that will uninstall the previous application. Write an MSI to uninstall the legacy thing or write

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI

2010-07-22 Thread Blair
M To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI Dear Blair, Am 22.07.2010 01:04, schrieb Blair: > 1. You can build MSIs with WiX that don't require running the setup as > administrator. Nothing that can be done outside of Windows Installer wi

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI

2010-07-22 Thread Lukas Haase
Dear Blair, Am 22.07.2010 01:04, schrieb Blair: > 1. You can build MSIs with WiX that don't require running the setup as > administrator. Nothing that can be done outside of Windows Installer without > elevation requires elevation in Windows Installer to also do. In fact this is exactly what I do

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI

2010-07-21 Thread Blair
1. You can build MSIs with WiX that don't require running the setup as administrator. Nothing that can be done outside of Windows Installer without elevation requires elevation in Windows Installer to also do. 2. Windows Installer has no built-in support for detecting/removing non-MSI packages. Ho