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Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM
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Hi Blair,
Thanks for your suggestion. I did the change as you said, set OnlyDetect to
yes. Now the new install will not cause
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Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:21 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install
Hi Blair,
Here I would like to explain you the reason why I use this Custom Action.
This CA is to call an exe to start some
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Are these services as in Windows Services, controlled by the Service Control
Manager? They have APIs that let you discover the run state of controlled
services, as well as the fact
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Hi Blair,
Thanks a lot for your help.
I will try to use the path search custom action as you said. I am not clear how
to create a custom action native dll. I just create an empty project
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The first question was whether the user can switch between case 1 and case 2.
What it appears you want is to have every version be a major upgrade (don't
keep old ProductCodes from one version to the next) EXCEPT when you send out a
security fix
, 2009 8:27 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install
Hi Blair,
Thanks for your suggestion. I did the change as you said, set OnlyDetect to
yes. Now the new install will not cause the removing files from previous
install in other
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So you need upgrades to not replace previous installations? In that case they
are not upgrades.
I'm still trying to understand your use-case and your servicing strategy.
How do you intend to fix older
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Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:45 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install
Hi Blair,
Probably my use-case is special. My software should be able to install
flexiably. It can be installed as following:
Case 1:
Version 1 install
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009 12:48
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I don't see the difference between Case 1 and Case 2, except that the
installation directories are switched.
Four more questions (unless
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Hi Blair,
Thanks for your reply.
Sorry, I made a mistake. Case 2 is to install version 1 to both PathA and
PathB. So case 2 is multi instance issue. But I care more about case 1
currently. To clarify
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From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:05 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install
Hi Blair,
Thanks for your reply.
Sorry, I made a mistake. Case 2
.
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I set one property in my wix project:
Property Id=INSTALLDIR
DirectorySearch Id=PreDir Path=[APPLICATIONFOLDER] Depth=1
FileSearch Name=installedfile.txt/
/DirectorySearch
/Property
And set the custom actions as:
Custom Action
they have an older version
installed?
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From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and new install
Hi Rob,
I think over
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Von: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009 17:38
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1. Personally, I would highly suggest you change your application so
the registrysearch for all installed version.
How to realize it?
Regards,
Chunyan
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Von: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare)
Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Oktober 2009 10:39
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Hi
Hi Wix-users,
I have developed one upgradable installer with Wix3. As I understand
that main upgrade is same as new install. My scenario is that my version
1 has been installed to PathA. And I have an upgraded version 2. If I
install version to to PathA, the old files are removed, the new files
Nachricht-
Von: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare)
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009 09:04
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Hi Wix-users,
I have developed one upgradable installer with Wix3. As I understand that main
upgrade
Healthcare)
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009 13:19
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When I searched in Google, I found some one has the same problem as me. And the
suggested solution is to define a property using
to
somewhere, like I did for custom action?
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Von: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare)
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009 13:19
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When I searched in Google, I
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