If "updatable installation" is referring to the fact that you'll be doing a 
major upgrade with Upgrade elements, why do you need this? An upgrade is a new 
install that users can install to whatever path they want.  It so happens that 
an upgrade can also remove prior versions, but it seems unusual to imply that 
an upgrade needs to go into exactly the same location as the previous product. 

Phil Wilson 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 6:26 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] How to find the installed path for update

Hi Wix-users,
 
I have developed a wix installer. It is an updatable installation
package. For the path, I set the default path as 
 
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">

<Directory Id="APPLICATIONFOLDER" Name="ViewPoint6">

 

It will show "D:\ViewPoint6" as the default in InstallDirDlg.wxs:

<Control Id="Folder" Type="PathEdit" X="20" Y="100" Width="320"
Height="18" Property="WIXUI_INSTALLDIR" Indirect="yes" />

<Property Id="WIXUI_INSTALLDIR" Value="APPLICATIONFOLDER" />

 

However, if I installed the software in the other path, like
d:\testinatll for the first time. When there is new version avalable, I
want to update it. The InstallDirDlg still shows the path as
"D:\ViewPoint6", instead of "d:\testinatll".

How can I get the path for the update installation and set it to
InstallDirDlg? Probably, I need to have to dialogs, one for new
installation, defaut path is "D:\ViewPoint6", the other one is update
dialog, the path should be set as installed path.

 

Best regards

Chunyan

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