Thanks Chad, but i am running this msi under too many different scenario's
1) If the user is installing by his own i want to preserve some registry
settings (I do not want this cleanup thing to run in this case.
2) If we are pushing the install from the server using:
msiexec /i myapp.msi MYFLAG=1
in this case i want to run the cleanup files, which is giving me all this
pain :-((.
Thanks Again
quote author="Chad Petersen">
I'm not Francis, but have a thought for you.
Why not have your new MSI remove the older InstallShield MSI using the
Upgrade element? It's built in. I always opt for built in features
before using anything custom if it is available. Don't make things
harder than they are.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:04 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running Custom Action Before InstallFiles
Hi Francis,
May be my approach is wrong as i am a newbie with Wix with no prior
experience on Install Shield.
What i am trying to do here is we have some users that are using a msi
(created with Install Shield) and we are replacing this old msi with the
new
one which we are creating with Wix.
So for removing old msi completely from user machine we have created a
batch
file that cleans up registry, removes product related files and folders
and
removes service that are installed with the old version of msi (created
with
Install shield).
And before i install my new version i want to execute this script to
clean
all files and setting related to prior msi.
Please suggest if there is any better approach to achieve my goal.
Thanks,
Vivek
Francis Kam wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that InstallFiles is a single discrete
action
> and
> can not be broken down per-file. I don't think what you're trying to
do is
> possible with your current approach. Instead, I would consider putting
> your
> CA in the Binary table rather than explicitly installing it on the
file
> system. Although I just realized you're using a batch file... I can't
> recall
> if you can put a batch file in the Binary table (although I imagine
you
> can
> put any sort of file in there).
>
> What are you actually trying to accomplish? What exactly does the
batch
> file
> do?
>
> -Francis
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for your response, but i am having a hard time fitting this
custom
>> action in between two features.
>> I checked my Action sequence with Ocra but it doesn't tells me any
thing
>> about sequence of installing a feature. can you please provide me
some
>> example.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vivek
>>
>>
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