Message: 4
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 16:16:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Connet
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Re Dual Mode Setups
To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset."
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Question: How do you set the installcontext early enough in the Major Upgrade
setup so that it finds the existing product's context to upgrade.
We created a Single Package authored MSI to target Win 7 +
To Identify setup package as a Dual Mode we set
ALLUSERS set to 2
MSIINSTALLPERUSER set to 1
Re: Deleting files in a patch.
Applying the same logic to a patch does not work.
We set the component id for new files that do not need to be registered to
null. (to allow for deletion in future patches)
Then apply the patch. Resulting in the null component id files not getting
installed.
The msdn doc says the following for component id in the column table.
ComponentId --> If this column is null the installer does not register the
component and the component cannot be removed or repaired by the installer.
This might be intentionally done if the component is only needed during the
I am looking for some pointers on determining the installed version of OpenGL.
I can use OpenGL Viewer to determine the version on a standalone system - but
what would be the best way for an install to determine the version.
Thanks
Mita
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We are having issues propagating the environment variables. The setup has a
custom action that propagates the environment using the SendMessageTimeOut api
SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0,(LPARAM)
"Environment", SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG, 5000, NULL);
On a 64 bit OS, both 32
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