I believe that would still require restarting the app during the installation process. Mark was asking for a way to install without shutting down the current instance, and the next time it loads have it start with the new instance.
Andreas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilson, Phil" <phil.wil...@invensys.com> Date: Monday, February 7, 2011 9:59 am Subject: Re: [WiX-users] bypass fileinuse > 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. 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