Dear dB, Thank you for your comment. You are right, maybe a bootstrapper would have been the better apporach ...
I will have a look at dotNetInstaller. Am 23.07.2010 16:43, schrieb dB.: > Having dealt with a similar scenario with InstallShield, the best I can > suggest is to bootstrap uninstall. You can use dotNetInstaller > (http://dotnetinstaller.codeplex.com) and write a command line that will > uninstall the previous application. Write an MSI to uninstall the legacy > thing or write a tool to do it. I'd do everything to avoid bloating the new > installer with any kind of logic that deals with a legacy installer. > > For your user/administrator problem - when you run as administrator, you can > do everything any user can do. So embed a manifest in the bootstrapper that > will make it always run as administrator. > > If you must have just 1 MSI, you will try to do what we did. In the MSI we > would detect that a previous installshield application is installed > (registry) and ran uninstall, dropping an .rsp file that drives the > installshield uninstall. We made the MSI believe it's doing a major upgrade > (some convenience properties here: > http://code.dblock.org/ShowPost.aspx?id=42). It was pretty hard overall and > took more effort to clean-up once the customers were off those very old > versions. > > dB. @ dblock.org > Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lukas Haase [mailto:lukasha...@gmx.at] > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 4:20 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Upgrading from other setup program to WiX/MSI > > Hi, > > Today I began creating my first WiX project. Until now I used > SetupSpecialist but as I am facing serious problems with it I want to > use WiX in future. > > This is my first big question: On clients' computers there will be an > old instance of my program (with SetupSpecialist) installed. Even worse: > My new version requires the setup to be run as administrator. > > However, the old versions might be installed as normal users. > > What is the best way to handle this situation? > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Luke > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
