Thanks for the info Rob! Below is what I found in the decompiled old msi, is
any of it relevant? And im afraid even if you point out what is relevant I
would not know what to do with that in Wix, do you know what I would need to
specify in Wix to make the self-healing happen for a File, Component or a
Feature? ... assuming I do not have to toggle self-healing at Product level
/ assuming self-healing is not all or nothing per msi.
<CustomAction Id="ERRCA_UIANDADVERTISED" Error="[VSDUIANDADVERTISED]" />
<Custom Action="ERRCA_UIANDADVERTISED" Sequence="5">ProductState=1</Custom>
<AdvertiseExecuteSequence>
<CostInitialize Sequence="800" />
<CostFinalize Sequence="1000" />
<Custom Action="DIRCA_TARGETDIR"
Sequence="750">TARGETDIR=""</Custom>
<InstallValidate Sequence="1400" />
<InstallInitialize Sequence="1500" />
<CreateShortcuts Sequence="4500" />
<RegisterClassInfo Sequence="4600" />
<RegisterExtensionInfo Sequence="4700" />
<RegisterMIMEInfo Sequence="4900" />
<RegisterProgIdInfo Sequence="4800" />
<PublishComponents Sequence="6200" />
<PublishFeatures Sequence="6300" />
<PublishProduct Sequence="6400" />
<InstallFinalize Sequence="6600" />
<MsiPublishAssemblies Sequence="6250" />
</AdvertiseExecuteSequence>
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: 30 April 2012 01:17
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Protect installed msi files
Self-healing is a feature of the Windows Installer. There are several ways
to get it to kick in. The most common is through Advertised entry points.
You might decompile your old VS setup/deployment project and see if it has
things Advertised or otherwise organized differently.
You could also get a verbose log file from the repair operations and see
what was used in the past to kick off the self-healing.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Kristjan Laane
<kristjan.la...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hello again
>
> When I used to create my msis through Visual Studio Setup and
> Deployment projects then these installers protected the files that got
installed i.e.
> if I installed the application and then manually deleted a file (such
> as an included image content file) then when the next time the main
> executable was run this deleted file got restored i.e. the msi was
> found in the Windows store and it repaired my installation.
>
> With Wix this protection is not present any more. I think that is
> better for some of the (optional) files that are installed, but I
> would like to protect some of my dll's as before - do you know how I
> could do that in Wix?
>
> Atb,
> Kristjan
>
> P.S. My msi's were always per machine, but now are per user, so this
> may be the difference that is actually causing the lack of protection?
> If that is the case, is it still possible to protect certain File /
> Component / Feature elements when deploying per user msi's ?
>
>
>
>
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