That sounds a bit odd if I understand correctly. There's already an installed product and you're installing on top of it, but it's apparently not an upgrade. Don't you end up with two entries in Add/Remove Programs and the possibility that uninstalling the older one will remove your files?
Old InstallShield still might be MSI-based, if so you just need the installed product's UpgradeCode and version to do a major upgrade. If you don't know them the cached MSI in Windows\installer can be opened with Orca to get the values. If old InstallShield means non-MSI it's usual to either ask the user to uninstall it first (you can detect its presence with a registry search) and I think there have been recent posts here that deal with automatically uninstalling by locating the uninstallstring in the registry and running it. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Eldridge Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:14 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Conditional install of feature Hi Phil, Neither. Because the original install was a done in a very old version of InstallShield, I'm just using <File> elements and letting the Installer Server just do a straight copy over the existing files. ProductCode and UpgradeCode are in effect, brand new. Thanks, Jeff ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilson, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 August 2008 17:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Conditional install of feature What kind of upgrade are we looking at here? A major upgrade with ProductCode changes and Upgrade table entries? Or is the ProductCode the same as the original product? Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Eldridge Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:36 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Conditional install of feature Hi All, I have a Wix2 setup that is designed to "upgrade" a product installation to a known level. The original installation was InstallShield/InstallScript based. The product is essentially made up of a Client component and a Server component. The install has a couple of FileSearch-es to set properties: <!-- Is Rainbow 3 client installed? --> <Property Id='RB3CLIENT' Value='N'> <DirectorySearch Id='RBClientDirectory' Path='c:\Program Files\Rainbow'> <FileSearch Id='RainbowExe' Name='rainbow.exe' /> </DirectorySearch> </Property> <!-- Is Rainbow 3 server installed? --> <Property Id='RB3SERVER' Value='N'> <DirectorySearch Id='RBServerDirectory' Path='c:\Program Files\Rainbow'> <FileSearch Id='RBServicesExe' Name='rbfta.exe' /> </DirectorySearch> </Property> The RB3CLIENT and RB3SERVER properties are then used in Conditions on Features: <Feature Id="Client" Title="Rainbow Client" Level="0"> <Condition Level="1"><![CDATA[RB3CLIENT <> "N"]]></Condition> <ComponentRef Id="RainbowClientComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="RainbowSharedComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="RainbowHelpComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="VC80ATLComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="VC80CRTComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="VC80MFCComponent" /> </Feature> <Feature Id="Server" Title="Rainbow Server" Level="0"> <Condition Level="1"><![CDATA[[RB3SERVER <> "N"]]></Condition> <ComponentRef Id="RainbowServerComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="RainbowSharedComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="RainbowHelpComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="StoreProviderComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="VC80ATLComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="VC80CRTComponent" /> <ComponentRef Id="VC80MFCComponent" /> </Feature> My problem is that the Server component is never installed. Client seems to work ok (it installs and uninstalls fine). There is no UI option for the user to choose Features; it is worked out soley on the result of FileSearch-es. Any ideas? Thanks, Jeff ________________________________ About Microsoft Ireland: www.microsoft.com/ireland Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited. A company incorporated and registered in Ireland number 256796. Microsoft Ireland Research. A company incorporated and registered in Ireland number 342235. 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