The Complus table in MSI just takes all configuration in one big undocumented BLOB. It is not useful for anything else than the MSI's created by exporting a COM+ application from the catalog as far as I know.
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:48 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Yea, that's what thought. Well seeing as at least one person thinks the same as me I shall submit a bug and see what comes of that :-). At least in the mean time I have a work-around. Cheers, Adam On Monday 09 February 2009 17:33:56 Neil Sleightholm wrote: > I don't know how the internals of the COM+ custom action work but this > does sound like a bug to me. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] > Sent: 09 February 2009 13:40 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade > > Good thinking, that worked. > > The next question is, should this be necessary? Is the ComPlusExtension > using its own custom actions or something, rather than using stuff like > the > ComPlus tables provided by Windows Installer? Just seems to me that it > should be able to handle this in the same way something like > ServiceInstall > does. > > Adam > > 2009/2/9 Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com> > > > Where do you have RemoveExistingProducts scheduled? Have you tried it > after > > InstallValidate so that is removes everything before reinstalling. > > > > Neil > > > > Neil Sleightholm > > X2 Systems Limited > > n...@x2systems.com <mailto:n...@x2systems.com> > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] > > Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade > > > > > > > > Hi, > > I have been working on an installer for a COM application. The > installer > > contains a few .NET assemblies, with a couple configuration files and > > installs a COM application that uses the .NET assemblies (with the > > ComPlusExtension). Due to our development not being so strict I > figured it > > would probably be easier if each install was a major upgrade than > messing > > with minor and small. So to test this I generated the MSI and > installed, > > all > > is well so far. Next I changed the product guid (ok well actually I > had it > > set to '*' :-) ) and increased the version from 2.0.0.0 to 2.1.0.0 > (both > > the > > steps I believe are required to initiate a major upgrade). I generated > the > > MSI and attempted an install. During the install the installation > > complained > > a COM application with the specified id already existed, retry had no > > effect, so I tried ignore and the install completed successfully. I > tried > > minor and small updates afterward just to confirm and they did not > > complain. > > So is there something I am missing when it comes to major upgrades and > the > > ComPlusExtension? Or even just something I am missing with Major > Upgrades > > in > > general? > > > > I tried this again 3.0.4805.0 and 3.0.5006.0, same result. > > > > Cheers, > > Adam > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with > > Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and > code > > to > > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power > of > > local > > resources and data with the reach of the web. 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