If you remove a component in a minor upgrade/small update (which are the only recommended ways to use a patch) you will either get a patch build failure or will orphan that component (it won't get removed and you may lose the ability to service the entire application if the right sequence of operations isn't followed).
To remove a component you must use a major upgrade. This is all described in the "Component Rules". I personally have never gotten a major upgrade patch to successfully apply, so don't even bother (it is not recommended anyway for various reasons), so you must make a new MSI with a different ProductCode and a correctly authored Upgrade table and scheduled RemoveExistingProducts action. Please search MSDN and the wix.chm files for those to see how to author them. ________________________________________ From: prasoon81 [prasoon1...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:00 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Query Regarding Patch: With the help of Patch I want to remove few file from installed files Hi, I want to remove few file after installing the Patch, Is It just like removing the component from my WIx file or I need to do somthing special here to remove that file. It is a bit urgent, Please. Thanks Prasoon Gupta -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Query-Regarding-Patch%3A-With-the-help-of-Patch-I-want-to-remove-few-file-from-installed-files-tp1654013p1654013.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
