Isn't it what the ContinueOnError attribute is there for? I have searched through this mail archive and I can see that people often put ContinueOnError="yes" for uninstall SQL strings. This sounds quite logical: don't interrupt the uninstall, and let the admin to manually drop the broken references in SQL Management studio afterwards.
-- Yan -----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:34 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Where to store SQL Server login credentialsforuninstall? gree...@cox.net wrote: > The solution I posted is not without problems. The issue is that the > network admin has no way to pass the credentials to the uninstall. > Passing them through public properties on the command line is not the > safest way to go. The uninstall should be designed in a way that it > does not fail when it can't connect to SQL, offfering the administrator > a manual way to drop the database or whatever. > Right. My point is, though it's possible to disable obvious entry points, it's impossible to prevent them all. Be careful out there.<g> -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
