Properties (including public) are NOT passed to nested installations (including RemoveExistingProducts). Your 1.0.0 installer needs to use the UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE Property instead of your IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE property for your scenario.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa372380.aspx for more details on this property. ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Goryuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:57 AM To: discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Realizing a property during a major upgrade Hi, Is it possible to pass PUBLIC properties to products (.MSI) being removed during RemoveExistingProducts (during major upgrade)? My installer 1.0.0 * installs the 1.0.0 product * launches a custom action based on a property IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE My installer 2.0.0 * removes a previous product (1.0.0) <- but doesn¹t realize the property IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE * installs the new product, but during ³RemoveExistingProducts² the IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE is not being realized by the v1.0.0 MSI, thus my custom action is not being executed. To prove this I launched the 1.0.0 installer with IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE as a parameter and the custom action executed correctly. So far I¹ve tried: 1) Set a custom action after LaunchConditions that sets IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE=true 2) Pass IS_MAJOR_PROPERTY to installer 2.0.0 hoping that it¹d be realized during the ³RemoveExistingProducts² that removed 1.0.0 3) Setting the UpgradeVersion element¹s property to ³IS_MAJOR_UPGRADE² * in this case IS_MAJOR_PROPERTY is a ³SecureCustomProperty² 4) Set the public property in the Property table. Thanks, Alex G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
