Self-healing is a feature of the Windows Installer. There are several ways to get it to kick in. The most common is through Advertised entry points.
You might decompile your old VS setup/deployment project and see if it has things Advertised or otherwise organized differently. You could also get a verbose log file from the repair operations and see what was used in the past to kick off the self-healing. On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Kristjan Laane <kristjan.la...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Hello again > > When I used to create my msis through Visual Studio Setup and Deployment > projects then these installers protected the files that got installed i.e. > if I installed the application and then manually deleted a file (such as an > included image content file) then when the next time the main executable > was > run this deleted file got restored i.e. the msi was found in the Windows > store and it repaired my installation. > > With Wix this protection is not present any more. I think that is better > for > some of the (optional) files that are installed, but I would like to > protect > some of my dll's as before - do you know how I could do that in Wix? > > Atb, > Kristjan > > P.S. My msi's were always per machine, but now are per user, so this may be > the difference that is actually causing the lack of protection? If that is > the case, is it still possible to protect certain File / Component / > Feature > elements when deploying per user msi's ? > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
