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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Detecting if WiX 3.0 is installed
John Robbins wrote:
WiX 3.0 uses a Product Id=* to autogenerate a product ID. Say you
wanted to build a tool that required WiX 3.0. How would your installer
correctly determine that any build of WiX 3.0
John Robbins wrote:
Using the registry key SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Installer XML\version is
sufficient.
Agreed. The right values are probably there, as we did some work to
enable the WiX that was to ship in VS2010 to be swapped out for the
public version.
I guess anyone using a
Hello,
WiX 3.0 uses a Product Id=* to autogenerate a product ID. Say you wanted to
build a tool that required WiX 3.0. How would your installer correctly
determine that any build of WiX 3.0 was installed?
John
Wintellect
http://www.wintellect.com
877-968-5528
I would think doing a RegistrySearch on HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows
Installer XML\3.0 should work. Assign to a property and use it as a launch
condition.
Jacques
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:03 PM, John Robbins j...@wintellect.com wrote:
Hello,
WiX 3.0 uses a Product Id=* to autogenerate a
I haven't coded how to do it in an MSI installer, (I have a Perl module
that installs WiX if it isn't installed, instead) but there is a
registry key that could be searched for:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Installer
XML\3.0\ProductVersion will contain the version of WiX that is
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