John, Thanks so much for this! :) That is much better news than what I was hoping for. I am going to try it today.
A -----Original Message----- From: John Nannenga [mailto:john.nanne...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:25 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] question about upgrades and instance transforms I leave the upgrade code the same for all instances. I have a dialog asking the user whether they'd like to upgrade an existing instance, or install a new instance (only if an existing instance is detected). If the user selects to upgrade an existing instance, I store the product code of that instance in a property, PC_TO_UPGRADE. I then have a CA which runs that sets the "MIGRATE" property and the property specified in the `Upgrade`.`ActionProperty` for the record in question appropriately and at the right time in the sequence as appropriate for the installation. (essentially, this strips off the additional semi-colon delimited list of product codes for the other instances that the installation / upgrade should not care about). Do this before WI custom actions which act upon the property, and life is good. :) -----Original Message----- From: Amy Rosewater [mailto:arosewa...@spectrumhr.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:47 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] question about upgrades and instance transforms Anyone have any thoughts on this? In my mind I am thinking that I would need to transform the Upgrade Code for each instance and the values in the upgrade table to match for windows installer to properly identify the specific instance I wanted to upgrade such that in my newer installer "Instance1" upgrade code matches my older installer upgrade code. This is just speculation, so if anyone has any experience supporting a major upgrade for an install with multiple embedded transforms, I would love to hear what you did. Thanks in advance, Amy -----Original Message----- From: Amy Rosewater [mailto:arosewa...@spectrumhr.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:18 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] question about upgrades and instance transforms Hi All, I am in the process of making the necessary changes to my installer to make it support a major upgrade. I have found several resources describing the creation of a major upgrade, and I think I understand at least for the default instance of my product, how to write the Wix required to make this work. However, in my application I have supported multiple side by side installations through the use of embedded transforms created by the Wix nodes <InstanceTransforms> and <Instance...>. Is there anything that I need to do differently in the creation of a major upgrade installer so that it will work correctly with transformed instances of my original install? 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