Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Don Benson
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Hi, I have been working on an installer for a COM application. The installer contains a few .NET assemblies, with a couple configuration files and installs a COM application that uses the .NET assemblies

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Neil Sleightholm
. Neil -Original Message- From: Don Benson [mailto:dben...@trulinx.com] Sent: 23 February 2009 20:25 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade This suggestion is problematic when the installation incudes .NET assemblies

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Don Benson
element. Are these ideas totally incompatible with how Windows Installer works? Sincerely, - Don Benson - From: Neil Sleightholm (via Nabble) [mailto:ml-user+58265-1563573...@n2.nabble.com] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 4:18 PM To: Don Benson Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Roy Abou Assaly
From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Hi, I have been working on an installer for a COM application. The installer contains a few .NET

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Don Benson
I also do Major upgrades *all* the time. We have a large COM, COM+, VB6 application and I don't dare play games with COM+ registries as I value my time too much :P It's a requirement for us developers to move back and forth along the versions and I want to force uninstall our product

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Roy Abou Assaly
Don Benson wrote: I also do Major upgrades *all* the time. We have a large COM, COM+, VB6 application and I don't dare play games with COM+ registries as I value my time too much :P It's a requirement for us developers to move back and forth along the versions and I want to force

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread Neil Sleightholm
2009 22:00 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade I admit that I am not a Windows Installer expert, but I'm not sure that I understand the statement about the price you pay for a major upgrade. My client app installation does not use

[WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Burton
Hi, I have been working on an installer for a COM application. The installer contains a few .NET assemblies, with a couple configuration files and installs a COM application that uses the .NET assemblies (with the ComPlusExtension). Due to our development not being so strict I figured it would

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Neil Sleightholm
[mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Hi, I have been working on an installer for a COM application. The installer contains a few .NET assemblies, with a couple configuration files

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Burton
mailto:n...@x2systems.com From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Hi, I have been working on an installer for a COM

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Rob Mensching
, 2009 05:40 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Good thinking, that worked. The next question is, should this be necessary? Is the ComPlusExtension using its own custom actions or something, rather than using

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com mailto:n...@x2systems.com From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Hi, I have been

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Burton
Yea, I recall when I tried looking up the ComPlus tables when using the NAnt MSI task they seemed a bit weird, but then before I did any real experimentation I discovered WiX and figured, who cares ... that'll do the job for me instead :-D lol. On Monday 09 February 2009 17:18:26 Rob Mensching

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Rob Mensching
:47 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Yea, I recall when I tried looking up the ComPlus tables when using the NAnt MSI task they seemed a bit weird, but then before I did any real experimentation I discovered

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Adam Burton
Limited n...@x2systems.com mailto:n...@x2systems.com From: Adam Burton [mailto:adz...@googlemail.com] Sent: Mon 09/02/2009 13:08 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Hi, I have

Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread Fredrik Grohn
: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:48 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM Plus Applications and Major Upgrade Yea, that's what thought. Well seeing as at least one person thinks the same as me I shall submit a bug and see what comes of that :-). At least