[WiX-users] Tweaking RemoveExistingProducts depending on user input

Our installer uses major upgrades as described in many Wix documents. I would like to add a little more comfort to the installer by giving the users the following choices: 1. Uninstall the previous major version (4.0) during install of 5.0 or 2. Have 4.0 and 5.0 installed side by side The

[WiX-users] Problem with accessing features state s after showing the SetupTypeDlg

I use the SetupTypeDlg to let the user select whether to do a typical, custom or complete installation. I attach a custom action called RequiredLicensesValidation to the DoAction events of the TypicalButton and CompleteButton. Inside of the RequiredLicensesValidation custom action I try to

[WiX-users] Problem with managed custom actions (DTF)

I use DTF to build a custom action Dll in C# (Wix Build 3.0.5217.0). When I add the custom action named SQLiteValidation I encounter the following installation error : Error 1723. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could

Re: [WiX-users] Using DTF to merge a merge module int o an msi package

I followed your suggestions and used MergeMod.dll via COM interop in my little repackaging tool. This works perfectly. After the successful merge I still have to do a couple of steps to patch the resulting msi: 1. Extract the merge module's cab file 2. Insert the cab file into the _Streams

Re: [WiX-users] Using DTF to merge a merge module into an msi package

over to C#/DTF pretty easy. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 4/21/09, Frank Neumann frank.neumann.karlsho...@web.de wrote: From: Frank Neumann

[WiX-users] ClickThrough for Windows Forms application

I consider using the autoupdate technology provided by the ClickThrough project for a .NET 2.0 Windows Forms application. Could somebody recommend ClickThrough from its own experiences? Where can I found additional information (tutorial, examples) for it? Regards, Frank