Thank you Blair. In my wxs file I see a Product element with an Id attribute - I found a webpage that says that this is the ProductCode. Can you confirm? That appears to be static in my case so I suspect the problem is with the version number which is also static at "1.0.0.0" - I will need to find out how to update that within TFS.
Cheers! .Mark -----Original Message----- From: Blair Murri [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:43 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with new version They have to be minor upgrades of each other (i.e. share the same ProductCode). The three downsides that immediately come to mind are that you cannot double-click version 2.msi and succeed at installing it (you have to supply a special command-line), if the version 2.msi isn't identically named the same as version 1 was then you can't ever even install it, and if you (re)move any components or otherwise break any component rules you orphan all of your resources and leave the entire product "advertised and not installed" without any of the resources actually removed (which can be fixed by immediately repairing, but that is very counter-intuitive). Also the upgrades do not use the Upgrade table (which is ignored during minor upgrades). > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 01:03:36 +0000 > Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with new version > > I remember using this feature from the past. I would have an .msi that is > version 1 and another being version 2. I install version 1 on my machine and > then I am able to right click the version 2 .msi and select "uninstall" and > have it succeed. > > Does anyone know how to do this? It's quite convenient. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just > $49.99! > 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, > SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library > Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! > Ends 9/20/13. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.c > lktrk _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
