Author your installer package as a Major Upgrade. That will give you a package that can do fresh installs and upgrades.
Xml schema/content migration is something I haven't figured out how to do acceptably within a MSI package. I'm very interested in hearing how others tackle this problem. Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -----Original Message----- > From: Mathis Thomas [mailto:t...@bica.ch] > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 4:40 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Best practice: Upgrade XML Config File (.Net) > > Hi, > > I search a good solution to upgrade an already installed .Net > application. In this .Net application we have standard xml-config files, > which has only settings with application scope. I have searched for many > forum entries and it seems that nobody has useful information about it. > The logic should be so: > - the installer or reinstaller only creates the file if it is not found > (could be done with the permanent and neveroverwrite attribute of the > component element) > - the uninstaller should ask you if the programm should be removed with > or without configuraiton (does not works with the permanent flag) > - the logic has to be in one wix installer project, that means you > create a msi package with integrated installation and upgrade logic > > It should later also be possible to add some migration or upgrade code > to the wix installer for the xml config files. > > Thanks, > > Thomas Mathis > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
