Eliminating the registry key would be high on my list of priorities also. I wonder what purpose it serves and consider refactoring .
---------------------------------------- From: "Peter Shirtcliffe" <pshirtcli...@sdl.com> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:40 AM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Update Registry with Patch If it were me, I'd put the registry key with the main exe for the product and increment the build number of the exe's version resource in each build. That way the registry key and the file key path would be rewritten during an update. This is assuming you can't read the version number from the msi using msigetproductinfo() for some reason. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Tissington [mailto:michael_tissing...@ciqual.com] Sent: 22 September 2011 14:46 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: [WiX-users] Update Registry with Patch In my Wix file I have a component with a file as the key path and then various registry keys, one write the version number. When I create a patch, the file may not have changed but I still need to update the version number in the registry. How can I do this - I know if my install package is correct, then this should happen. So I'm guessing that I need to redesign how the component is organized. Basically I have a number of exe files and each are in their own component. Since the version number is for the entire project, do I need to put the version number registry key in its own component? If not, how do I do this? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved. If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us. SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207. Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
