Re: [WiX-users] RemoveRegistryKey and uninstall

2009-01-17 Thread Peter Smulders
Don't know the answer, but surely interested when you find out how. I understand you update by a complete uninstall followed by a new install. How about the other way around: first install the new version and then uninstall the old one? My experience is that in that case a registry key

Re: [WiX-users] Conflict of Interest: InstallFiles and RemoveExistingProducts

2009-01-17 Thread Neil Sleightholm
You probably know this stuff but Bob posted some interest information here: http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/12/30/paying-for-upgrades/ Neil -Original Message- From: vexilar [mailto:s...@sorna.com] Sent: 16 January 2009 23:56 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix for ja-JP

2009-01-17 Thread Bob Arnson
Vidya Kukke wrote: One last thing, I was wondering how come if it has not been localized in japanese I get warnings only for a few strings? Is it that these are new and have been introduced only in 3.0 but the rest of the strings were in 2.0 and are available for use as-is in 3.0? The

Re: [WiX-users] Getting the version from the Assembly file

2009-01-17 Thread Bob Arnson
Colin Fox wrote: my_cool_software%24%28filever%29 So is variable substitution not allowed in output names? Or is this a bug? It would require explicit support, at least in Votive. As it's rare/dangerous, I doubt Votive supports it. You can always do it with a post-build target. --

Re: [WiX-users] Conflict of Interest: InstallFiles and RemoveExistingProducts

2009-01-17 Thread vexilar
Thanks a lot. I'm converting from using Visual Studio Setup Projects, so I think the easiest thing to do will be to schedule REP Before/After InstallInitialize. Neil Sleightholm wrote: You probably know this stuff but Bob posted some interest information here: