Or, alter your upgrade table to something that allows whatever your SxS story is.
-----Original Message----- From: Sohail Somani [mailto:soh...@taggedtype.net] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:38 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UpgradeGUID question On 10-08-19 1:10 PM, Wilson, Phil wrote: > ....and it might help to look at it in terms of a product line. Using two products as an example: > > Prod1 v1.0 => Prod1 v2.0 => Prod1 => v3.0 > > And > > Prod2 v10.0 => Prod2 v11.0 => Prod2 => v12.0 > > Each of these is a product line where each new version is intended to replace any already-installed pre-existing versions. Prod1 and Prod2 would each have their own unique UpgradeId for the life of the product although each version would have a new ProductCode. The point is that Windows makes it easy to do the upgrades because all you do is use the Upgrade table to say which previous versions you want to upgrade. You get the uninstall/upgrade for free with RemoveExistingProducts. > > Phil Wilson A corollary is if you want to install major versions side-by-side, you should use a different UpgradeCode for each major version, correct? -- Sohail Somani -- iBlog : http://uint32t.blogspot.com iTweet: http://twitter.com/somanisoftware iCode : http://bitbucket.org/cheez ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
