First, I love WiX. I don't think I can say that enough. Windows Installer is a huge pain and this product makes it bearable and almost fun.
Ok, enough sucking up. I am reading the section about upgrades here: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/major_upgrade.htm It appears that the recommendation is to generate the Product Id every time. In addition to this, I am also generating the Package Id every time. In fact, when I want an installation to overwrite the existing installation (by uninstalling and installing on top), I am only leaving the UpgradeCode as static. Specifically, here are the relevant sections of my wxs file: <Product Id="*" UpgradeCode="A-GUID" Name="Product SDK" Language="1033" Version="1.0.1" Manufacturer="Company Inc."> <Package Id="*" Description="Product SDK" Manufacturer="Company Inc." InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" /> <Upgrade Id="SAME-GUID-AS-A-GUID"> <!-- The Maximum version should be one less than the current minor version (or 0 if negative). The Minimum version should be the first in this product series --> <UpgradeVersion Minimum="1.0.0" IncludeMinimum="yes" Maximum="1.0.0" IncludeMaximum="yes" Property="OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED" /> </Upgrade> <InstallExecuteSequence> <RemoveExistingProducts After="InstallInitialize"/> </InstallExecuteSequence> Does this sound like a silly, dangerous thing to do or am I a genius? Thanks in advance. -- Sohail Somani -- iBlog : http://uint32t.blogspot.com iTweet: http://twitter.com/somanisoftware iCode : http://bitbucket.org/cheez ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
