Please, don't use a custom action when the Windows Installer provides native
ability to do the work. Custom actions are much, much, much more fragile.
I encourage you to take a little bit to understand the root issue why your
patches are not updating some Components and go from there. A verbose log
file will probably help.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Skildum, Mathew
wrote:
> Registry entries in the MSI are only updated when the file they are linked
> with are updated.
>
> The easiest way to handle this situation is to have a custom action that
> updates the targeted registry value when the patch is run.
>
> Mat Skildum
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Tissington [mailto:michael_tissing...@ciqual.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 8:54 AM
> To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
> Subject: [WiX-users] patch not patching registry
>
> I have created a patch based on two admin installs using candle, light and
> msimsp.
>
> In the install I write the version number to a specified registry location.
>
> However when I apply the patch, it is not updating the registry to the new
> value.
>
> How do I make a patch that also applies any registry changes too?
>
>
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