I agree with your second statement but that is the price you pay for this type of upgrade it is not specific to COM Plus.
I am not sure I agree with the first statement, it doesn't matter if the component hasn't changed the upgrade will still remove it and put it back. Well that is my experience. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Don Benson [mailto:dben...@trulinx.com] Sent: 23 February 2009 20:25 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade This suggestion is problematic when the installation incudes .NET assemblies that are registered in GAC or native DLLs registered as side-by-side (SxS) assemblies. If either of these assemblies does not change in the major upgrade, the assembly disappears after the major upgrade, leaving you with a non-functional application. Another potentially bad side effect is that any failures during the installation of the new version will result in both the old and new versions being uninstalled. Neil Sleightholm wrote: > > 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. 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