I'm not an IA expert, but what you just described sounds like the PackageCode not the UpgradeCode or the ProductCode. I suggest reading the MSI SDK doco topics and looking at your built MSI in Orca. From there connect the dots with the tool of your choice ( is, ia, wix, wise, vdproj et al ).
--- 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, 5/7/11, Rune Moberg <jjfl...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Rune Moberg <jjfl...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] FindRelatedProducts does not find any of my old installers To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011, 4:30 AM On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Christopher Painter <chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: > The registry key under Uninstall is going to be the ProductCode not the > UpgradeCode. Ah. > Do you have a copy of your old MSI so you can look at it in Orca to see if it > has an Upgrade Code Property? I have an archive of the previous versions, yes... And now I understand why ProductCode and UpgradeCode have been confusing me. In IA, the UpgradeCode is known as the "Revision Code" and the tooltip helpfully explains that "The IDE automatically changes the revision code each time you do a new build". I have at least three different installers out in the wild that I had assumed shared the same UpgradeCode. Of course IA's phrasing confused me when I first started with WiX, because something was clearly amiss. There are days when it pays off to not get out of bed at all. The day when I decided "IA is the installer for me" was clearly one of those days. Can anyone please lend me a time machine? Thanks Christopher for pointing me in the right direction. I will have to dabble with this over the weekend and see if I can come up with something not too clever. -- Rune ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
