Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExistingProducts after the InstallFinalize action still needed so that Major Upgrades don't remove assembly from GAC ?

2012-01-09 Thread CristianG
Thanks for mentioning those hotfixes. In the end I've included them in the bootstrapper. It seems to be the right way compared to increasing the file version of the assemblies. -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExistingProducts after the InstallFinalize action still needed so that Major Upgrades don't remove assembly from GAC ?

2012-01-03 Thread CristianG
I've done some more tests and it seems that on Windows Installer 4.5 the assembly is removed from GAC after a major upgrade. Good to see that at least on 5.0 got fixed. -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExistingProducts after the InstallFinalize action still needed so that Major Upgrades don't remove assembly from GAC ?

2012-01-03 Thread Wilson, Phil
] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:09 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExistingProducts after the InstallFinalize action still needed so that Major Upgrades don't remove assembly from GAC ? I've done some more tests and it seems that on Windows Installer 4.5

[WiX-users] RemoveExistingProducts after the InstallFinalize action still needed so that Major Upgrades don't remove assembly from GAC ?

2011-12-30 Thread CristianG
Hi, There is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905238 a knowledge base article (mentioned also on the WiX Documentation) that describes the case of an assembly from GAC missing after a major upgrade. One of the solutions was to schedule *RemoveExistingProducts *action to occur after the

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExistingProducts after the InstallFinalize action still needed so that Major Upgrades don't remove assembly from GAC ?

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
still needed so that Major Upgrades don't remove assembly from GAC ? Hi, There is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905238 a knowledge base article (mentioned also on the WiX Documentation) that describes the case of an assembly from GAC missing after a major upgrade. One of the solutions

Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExistingProducts after the InstallFinalize action still needed so that Major Upgrades don't remove assembly from GAC ?

2011-12-30 Thread Wilson, Phil
toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RemoveExistingProducts after the InstallFinalize action still needed so that Major Upgrades don't remove assembly from GAC ? My colleague investigated some scenarios like this a few months ago. He found that when not changing the assembly version, then using the -fv