Personally, I would just read the 4 pages in the MSI SDK on Upgrades a few times. I think you only care about Major Upgrades and I think most of hte information is captured in one single page in the SDK.
But it is up to you. If you don't like MSI, you won't like WiX since all WiX does is build MSI packages. mscheuner wrote: > Rob Mensching-4 wrote: > >> Have you read the MSI SDK about major upgrades? It sounds like you're >> not using the UpgradeCode to its full potential. >> >> > > In what way?? I haven't read the MSI SDK docs - but I did read Phil Wilson's > "Definitive Guide to Windows Installer" - Chapter 6, on Upgrades. Quite > honestly, still sounds pretty Greek to me - I don't like MSI, I think it's > overly complicated, and way too much overkill for 90% of all installs. > > But I have this misbehaving MSI and my boss wants a solution ASAP :-( so I'm > trying to struggle through learning as much as I absolutely need to > understand what's happening, and trying to figure out the easiest ways to > achieve what I need to achieve. > > Any further hints would be most welcome! My solution now is to store the > install location into the registry and reading it from there again when > installing a new version (using a major upgrade) since that information > seems to "survive" the major upgrade. Seems and feels a bit like a kludge - > but it works ok for now. > > Marc > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
