InstallScript is a proprietary language you can still use in InstallShield setups today and has always been available to use in MSI based setups.
Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Eldridge Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2:58 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Conditional install of feature The original install is InstallScript based (and was called out as such in the original email). The search: <!-- 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> does find the file rbfta.exe, but the feature never gets installed. ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilson, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 August 2008 22:31 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Conditional install of feature What about whether the very old InstallShield is an MSI-based install or not? If it's MSI based you're doing an upgrade in an unsupported manner, one MSI install with some set of product and component guids directly on top of another. If you do the install taking a MSI log it will say something about what's being installed (or not) and whether your search is finding anything. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Eldridge Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:02 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Conditional install of feature Ok, all valid points and need to be looked at. But, what about my original question? ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilson, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 August 2008 18:13 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Conditional install of feature 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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