Re: [WiX-users] Checking for Self install

2010-04-22 Thread Viv Coco
> I am attempting to determine if a specific version of a product is already > installed on the system. I basically want to do this to disallow/bail out of > an install if the MSI that is being executed is already installed on the > system. 1) If you run the same msi again you enter the maint

Re: [WiX-users] Checking for Self install

2010-04-21 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Launch conditions display when the evaluation is FALSE, i.e. the logic *fails* To prevent installing my 32-bit package on a 64-bit OS, I use something like this: This means if "VersionNT64" evaluates to true (i.e. it's a 64-bit system), I flip that to 'false'. If the applicat

Re: [WiX-users] Checking for Self install

2010-04-20 Thread Andy Clugston
At the moment I am trying to understand the conditional logic I posted. Right now, when I attempt to install the condition is evaluating to TRUE and causing the *first* install to fail. I am not understanding why it is evaluating this way. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Sascha Beaumont wrote:

Re: [WiX-users] Checking for Self install

2010-04-19 Thread Sascha Beaumont
So you want to prevent repair, uninstall and upgrades? Ugh. If the Product ID isn't changing, Windows Installer should bail automatically with "Another version of this product is already installed" from memory, if you're using an automatically generated Product ID you can use the fact that Windows

[WiX-users] Checking for Self install

2010-04-19 Thread Andy Clugston
I am attempting to determine if a specific version of a product is already installed on the system. I basically want to do this to disallow/bail out of an install if the MSI that is being executed is already installed on the system. Here is my authoring using 3.0 RTM. I must be missing something