Blair, thank you so much for this. I was about to go down the dark road of invoking a custom action to harvest this info from the registry and parse the directory from a component's path. I did not know about ComponentSearch, it is exactly what I needed. My major upgrades are now working just as the patches and repairs do.
Thanks for the simple solution, if you are in the Seattle area, or ever visiting, I owe you a beer (or the beverage of your choice)! -Aaron On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote: > Look at ComponentSearch. > > Blair > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron DeMarre [mailto:adema...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 1:38 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Property Behavior in Repair vs. Upgrade > > I am wondering if there is a way to get my major upgrade to behave like > repair - where properties are restored. > > I have three properties that determine the install location of various > components. I was short sighted and only saved the INSTALLOCATION property > to the registry. Now when doing a major upgrade the reinstall uses the > default paths instead of the paths selected in the previous version of the > product. No shocking news there. > > However a repair of the original install will use the paths the user > originally selected. I am wondering where this data is stored, and if it > can > be accessed and used by a major upgrade? I was under the assumption this > data was not persisted, but now I am wondering how this is persisted for a > repair operation? > > Thanks for any insight with this, I have painted myself into a corner > pretty > good this time! > > -Aaron > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability > What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. > Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools > to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
