You cannot make a new MSI file with a new ProductCode, run it and expect that it will just update your existing files. You've changed the ProductCode, making it a completely different product so yes you get two entries in ARP.
The other replies cover this anyway, but if you go the major upgrade route with upgrade elements etc it just works, replacing the older installed product with the new one. This is completely automatic and doesn't prompt for the user to uninstall the old one. It sounds like that's what you want. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Robert Lee [mailto:genrobert...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Is major update supposed to duplicate the add/remove programs entry? I would like to develop an installer so that it would NOT force the user to uninstall the application manually prior to installing new version. Just running the new msi should update everything automatically. As far as I understood the wix book, in order to achieve that, I should set product ID in the markup to "*", keep the upgrade code, and increase version number. But when I run the new msi, a new entry is added to add/remove programs. How to prevent that? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys plc, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please go to http://www.invensys.com/en/legal/default.aspx. You may contact Invensys plc on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail recept...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
