Were your old installs basic InstallShield projects (pure MSI) or were they hybrid projects (InstallScript installs that use MSI for file transfer).
It sounds like you may be using a hybrid InstallScript installs. The projects cannot be directly upgrades using the MSI upgrade process. For the hybrid InstallScript projects you need to treat them line you would a legacy InstallScript install and call the silent install using the InstallShield setup.exe. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WiX-users] MajorUpgrade vs. InstallShield Hi all - this is our company's first Wix installer, and so far it is working out very well. The older products have an upgrade code which we can use in the Wix Product element to detect major upgrades. There is just one problem: these older products use InstallShield (11.5 I think) and when the Windows Installer major upgrade goes to do RemoveExistingProducts the older .MSI gets removed, but the InstallShield "stuff" remains. I looked in the archives, and it sounds like the InstallShield registry entry can be removed, as can the "<program files>\InstallShield Installation Information\{product code}" folder, presumably as a custom action scheduled after RemoveExistingProducts. Our older IS setups were apparently not made to run silent uninstalls unfortunately. I am unsure if this approach is the right one, and just wondering if anyone has done this and found any "gotchas" with it. Thanks for any info! -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
