I think I'd consider a strategy of creating an installer with your main features and then creating an update/patch that adds your additional files as a new feature of the original install. That way when you uninstall the original product it'll all come off.
Consider the following: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367850(VS.85).aspx Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Mon, November 8, 2010 9:26:59 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade, Patch, or something else... Unfortunately, the Windows Installer doesn't provide any native support for that sort of "chained uninstall". You'd need an external program to manage it. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:56 AM, John D. Marinuzzi <nu...@hypack.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > > > I have a question about how to implement something. I am currently using > WIX to create the MSI for our software's main application. I would like to > make a secondary MSI for some optional additional data that can be > installed > after the fact. I would like this data to be installed within > subdirectories of the main installation and to get removed if the main > installation is uninstalled. I do not want to include it in the main > installation because it will increase the size greatly. Is this a patch, > and Upgrade, or something else? > > > > Thanks, > > > > John > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper > David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a > Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your > business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
