Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall problems

2010-04-14 Thread Sascha Beaumont
See my post earlier this week (http://n2.nabble.com/correct-upgrade-table-td4876031.html) showing the solution I've come up with to prevent the user from installing different 'builds' of the same product. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Viv Coco wrote: > I got into this problem once when I did

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall problems

2010-04-14 Thread Sascha Beaumont
s message and notify us immediately. > Thank you for your cooperation. > -Original Message- > From: Viv Coco [mailto:vcotirl...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Mittwoch, 14. April 2010 10:13 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Un

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall problems

2010-04-14 Thread Bob Arnson
On 4/14/2010 9:26 AM, Johann Taferl, T-AU wrote: > try using the "windows installer clean up" to delete the entry in your > software list. > Avoid MsiZap at all costs: It modifies MSI's knowledge of what's installed but doesn't actually remove any resources. Instead of mucking around with t

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall problems

2010-04-14 Thread Jeffrey Bindinga
I fix the uninstall problem. I installed a ODBC driver using the functionality in wix and installed the files into the System32 folder. I made the files permanent, but the odbc driver funtionality in wix still wanted to remove the driver which failed. After moving the driver files for odbc to

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall problems

2010-04-14 Thread Johann Taferl, T-AU
nk you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: Viv Coco [mailto:vcotirl...@hotmail.com] Sent: Mittwoch, 14. April 2010 10:13 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall problems I got into this problem once when I did the following:

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall problems

2010-04-14 Thread Viv Coco
I got into this problem once when I did the following: 1) Create MyInstaller.msi Version X.X.X 2) Use this installer to install my product 3) Create again the MyInstaller.msi Version X.X.X, meaning a new rebuild of the msi but with the same version and different Product GUID and Package GUID as i

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall problems

2010-04-13 Thread Bob Arnson
On 4/13/2010 9:04 AM, Jeffrey Bindinga wrote: > Where should I be looking in this case? > Verbose log. It will show you what MSI decided to do with each feature and component. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

[WiX-users] Uninstall problems

2010-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Bindinga
Hi, I'm having problems with a wix create Installer. My Uninstall fails. If I uninstall it says that the uninstall completed successfully (both the GUI and the msi logfiles). My features are uninstalled, but my application is still in the software list and I can't install the application again