You could look at Restart Manager and have your exe integrate with that, then the install will shut your app down and restart it with the new version.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373524(v=vs.85).aspx Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Mark Turek [mailto:turekm...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 2:45 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] bypass fileinuse Thanks Andreas! Yes, this would be a solution. One of my components is also a plug-in. I heard though that there is a way to setup some kind of a bit flag and the installation engine would do just what I need but I went through all possible docs I found absolutely nothing. If any this will be probably at the msi level anyway since WIX schema does not have anything closely similar. Regards and thanks for your reply! -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Mertens Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 3:47 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] bypass fileinuse I've done something similar for an IE plug-in that gets updates on the fly. But it does require a bit of an architecture change. I use a directory with the original images (which is where my assemblies get installed, could be .exes also). I have a core app that loads/launches what I need by copying the original to a temp directory and execute from there. Then when the update runs, the original image can get updated. The next time the core app needs to load/launch your component, it can check to see if the original image is more up to date - if it is it makes a new copy and runs that. Of course you still need a core launcher app to deal with, but overall I find this works reasonably well. Andreas Mertens NVision Ideas Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Turek <turekm...@hotmail.com> Date: Friday, February 4, 2011 1:28 pm Subject: [WiX-users] bypass fileinuse > I have a requirement where installation needs to proceed even if > the exe (actually any installable component) is running and loaded > in the memory. The installation should be silent and whenever > currently running executable is closed the next startup should > proceed with the newly installed one. > The questions here are > a.. Is this possible? > b.. how to bypass default interruptions coming from the msi > engine like fileInUse etc... and allow the upgrade/install to > proceed while running (reboot action is not a solution) > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access > resourcesand provide services. 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