Re: [WiX-users] Default regsearch values and upgrading

2007-10-13 Thread RussGreen
OKI've changed the package ID to the question marks and tried changing the 3rd field in the product versionran the installer again and now I get... Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue. . More googling for me today then.

Re: [WiX-users] Component Guids - Version Changes

2007-10-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
The bit in Derek's article under Here's how it works explains how it works. It computes the full target path for the single file in the component (multiple files are not supported). It then generates the GUID as a hash of the full target path. That means that as long as you don't change the target

Re: [WiX-users] Default regsearch values and upgrading

2007-10-13 Thread RussGreen
So the only way I seem to be able to get this to work is to change the product guid as well as the package guid. that doesn't seem right but it seems to work -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Default-regsearch-values-and-upgrading-tf4611878.html#a13189207 Sent from the

Re: [WiX-users] Digitally signing packages

2007-10-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
The DigitalCertificate element is for: a) validating signatures on external cabinets (presumably built separately with makecab); b) (MSI 3.0 and later) indicating the set of certificates which are allowed to sign patches that can be installed on a per-machine installation by non-privileged users

Re: [WiX-users] Default regsearch values and upgrading

2007-10-13 Thread RussGreen
sorted it. http://www.nabble.com/file/p13190669/eProject.wxs eProject.wxs -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Default-regsearch-values-and-upgrading-tf4611878.html#a13190669 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [WiX-users] Digitally signing packages

2007-10-13 Thread Chris Ridd
On 13 Oct 2007, at 13:56, Mike Dimmick wrote: The DigitalCertificate element is for: a) validating signatures on external cabinets (presumably built separately with makecab); b) (MSI 3.0 and later) indicating the set of certificates which are allowed to sign patches that can be

Re: [WiX-users] Component Guids - Version Changes

2007-10-13 Thread Laxmi Narsimha Rao Oruganti (SQL CE)
Hey Mike, Thanks for the reply. Here is what I observed: 1)You are right about compile time Vs link time. The guids are generated at link time 2)The GUID is pretty much stable (rather same) across all MSI where a fragment (locale independent) is used. However, I still

Re: [WiX-users] Component Guids - Version Changes

2007-10-13 Thread Bob Arnson
Laxmi Narsimha Rao Oruganti (SQL CE) wrote: *2)*The GUID is pretty much stable (rather same) across all MSI where a fragment (locale independent) is used. However, I still think that for performance reasons, the GUID getting generated at compile time is better. Don't know with whom I