First of all, did your initial installer have an Upgrade Code specified? If it did then this will be fairly straightforward. To make a Major Upgrade, take your current WiX file and: Change the Product Version Change the Product Code Change the Package Code Leave the Upgrade Code the same
Create an Upgrade table like this: <Upgrade Id="YOUR-UPGRADE-GUID"> <UpgradeVersion Property="OLDAPPFOUND" IncludeMinimum="yes" Minimum="0.0.0.0" IncludeMaximum="no" Maximum="THIS-PRODUCT-VERSION"/> <UpgradeVersion Property="NEWAPPFOUND" IncludeMinimum="no" Minimum="THIS-PRODUCT-VERSION" OnlyDetect="yes"/> </Upgrade> Changing YOUR-UPGRADE-GUID and THIS-PRODUCT-VERSION for the appropriate values. Add RemoveExistingProducts to the InstallExecuteSequence. There are a few places you can add it, with differing affects. See here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371197.aspx The NEWAPPFOUND bit is for stopping downgrade. If you don't care about this you can omit that entry in the Upgrade Table and ignore the following. Otherwise: Add a custom error like this: <UI> <Error Id="2000">There is a later version of this product installed</Error> <UI> Create a Custom Action like this: <CustomAction Id="NewerVersionDetected" Error="2000"/> and finally add this to your execute sequences: <Custom Action="NewerVersionDetected" After="FindRelatedProducts">NEWAPPFOUND</Custom> Hoe that helps, Rob Carter Sanders wrote: > What I'd really like is a pointer to a working example of a Major > Upgrade. The fine tutorial at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/ has a > lot of info about patches and minor upgrades, but no explicit working > examples of major upgrades. I've been trying for quite some time to get > this working. > > What I'm experiencing is this- > > Either I get a double install, or a broken install. If I set OnlyDetect > to yes, I get a double install when I try to do an upgrade (two > instances of my program in add/remove programs) . If I set OnlyDetect to > "no", at the end of my upgrade, the entire installation is deleted and I > have a corrupted install. > > > Here's my Upgrade table- > > <Upgrade Id="9C471B34-F15F-44EA-8F25-131B6952A0CA"> > > <UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect="no" > Property="PREVIOUSVERSIONINSTALLED" IncludeMinimum='yes' Minimum='0.0.1'/> > > </Upgrade> > > > I don't see any suggestion of where the PREVIOUSVERSIONINSTALLED > property should be used once it's populated. Do I have to write a custom > action, or is there some mainstream way of using it? I tried adding it > as a condition to the Welcome Maintenance dialog, but that didn't seem > to work. > > Thanks for any help. > > > > -Carter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
