Funny, I've used the Upgrade table in Merge Modules ( msidbUpgradeAttributesOnlyDetect ) for about 5 years now without any problems. There's no reason why it "can't" be done.
Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Sat, 1/1/11, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> wrote: From: Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ComponentSearch and * To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: Saturday, January 1, 2011, 6:55 PM The fomatting is messed up but notice that Upgrade table is listed in this section of that documentation: The following installer tables cannot occur in a standard merge module. BBControlBillboardCCPSearchErrorFeatureLaunchCondition tableMediaPatchUpgrade On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Christopher Painter <chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: I read this article from MSDN and it doesn't make any reference to Upgrade not being allowed in a Merge Module. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369823(VS.85).aspx Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Thu, 12/30/10, Christopher Painter <chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: > From: Christopher Painter <chr...@deploymentengineering.com> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ComponentSearch and * > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 11:00 AM > Speaking of using the Upgrade table > to do detect only searches, is there a reason why WiX > won't allow me to author this in a merge module? > > We have merge modules maintained in ORCA that we are trying > to convert to WiX and WiX won't allow it. I can't > think of a reason why using the Upgrade table to do a search > and property assignment would be problematic in a merge > module. > > Chris > > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread > that deserves attention? E-Mail Me > > > --- On Wed, 12/29/10, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> > wrote: > > > From: Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ComponentSearch and * > > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML > toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 9:17 AM > > Upgrade table would probably be > > easier. > > > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Alex Ivanoff > > <alex.ivan...@shavlik.com>wrote: > > > > > I just realized that we may using the wrong > approach. > > > > > > We have two installers: InstallerA and > InstallerB. > > InstallerB can only be > > > installed if InstallerA is installed. So we are > using > > component search to > > > find one of the components of InstallerA. 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