[WiX-users] Major Upgrades, Burn and determining, which actions to do

2012-09-27 Thread Christian Hausknecht
Hello folks, as I did not get any answers to my last question, I try to be more precise today. I want to make an Installer with burn, that installs quite a big application. So there are different things to do, like just install some files, copy some files around, initiating a database and so

Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrades, Burn and determining, which actions to do

2012-09-27 Thread Rob Mensching
1. IIRC, (I try to avoid CopyFile so I could be mistaken) uninstalling an MSI does not remove the copied content. You could create a quick MSI to verify. 2. I highly recommend making your scripts idempotent. Thus, you can always run them and if they've already been applied, they do nothing. Makes