Aaron Khoo wrote:
> Hi there, I'm writing an installer using Wix, and we have an 
> interesting scenario. Our application has two DLLs, one is the main 
> DLL (which gets updated fairly often) and the other is a resource only 
> DLL (which is static, for the most part). We'd prefer not to ship the 
> latter DLL during our updates since it doesn't actually change.

If you send out patches, they won't include any of the content of files 
that didn't change.

> Then, in the UpgradeVersion portion of the Upgrade element, we specify 
> RemoveFeatures="MainComp" when upgrading to a newer version.

Upgrade ties into the Upgrade table, which is just for major upgrades. 
Major upgrades are full  product uninstalls/reinstalls, so you'd have to 
ship the updated DLL in the newer version.

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