Kevin Dente wrote: > We've got a WiX 2.0 based install, and have an upgrade scenario that > I'm not sure how to accomplish. For the new version of the product, > the default (configurable) install directory has changed. When > upgrading existing systems, we need to copy some XML configuration > info from the original install dir to the new install dir. I'm not > sure of the best way to accomplish this. I've considered two options. > One is to read the config info into a property and write it out to a > new config file in the new location. Unfortunately, as far as I can > tell the Xml* custom actions don't support reading XML files, only > writing them. The other option is to copy the existing config file to > the new install directory - but I'm not really sure how to do that in > WiX/MSI. Any pointers? Or other approaches to consider? http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_copyfile.htm (the 3.0 version is essentially the same)
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