Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade installation

2010-05-19 Thread Blair
r entry. I know I'm missing something basic here, but I don't know what. Sigh -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:41 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade installation What you

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade installation

2010-05-18 Thread Wix Mailing List
l Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:41 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade installation What you're describing is a major upgrade. You didn't mention this, but Visual Studio setup projects typical

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade installation

2010-05-18 Thread Wilson, Phil
Message- From: Wix Mailing List [mailto:w...@danhinsley.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:39 PM To: Wilson, Phil Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade installation Using the .NET Visual Studio Setup Project, I set the UpgradeCode of both the Install setup project and the Update setup project to be t

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade installation

2010-05-18 Thread Wilson, Phil
le. So it comes down to exactly what you did and saw in your "upgrade". Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Wix Mailing List [mailto:w...@danhinsley.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:04 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: R

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade installation

2010-05-18 Thread Wix Mailing List
If you have two separate MSI files then you'll have two entries in Add/Remove Programs. There's no magic merge that makes them become one product. >> But I did the same type of thing using the .NET setup (which produces MSI files) and it did as I expected. The upgrade recognized that it was the

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade installation

2010-05-18 Thread Wilson, Phil
If you have two separate MSI files then you'll have two entries in Add/Remove Programs. There's no magic merge that makes them become one product. Why exactly don't you want to include the file in subsequent updates? If it's a static file then patches and upgrades won't try to update it anyway