Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-26 Thread Tobias Markmann
Hi Rob, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Rob Mensching r...@firegiant.com wrote: Schedule your upgrade late and carefully adhere to the Component Rules. Thanks for the hint. I googled a bit and read up things on MajorUpgrade scheduling [0] and Component Rules, including [1] and [2]. So I've

Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-26 Thread Tobias Markmann
Hi Phil, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Phil Wilson phildgwil...@gmail.com wrote: An early sequencing of the upgrade (such as after InstallIntialize) is more or less the same as uninstalling the old product then installing the new one. Guids don't really matter much. After InstallExecute

Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-26 Thread Hoover, Jacob
...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 11:25 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades Hi Phil, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Phil Wilson phildgwil...@gmail.com wrote: An early sequencing

Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-26 Thread Hoover, Jacob
...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 7:08 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades Hi Rob, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Rob Mensching r...@firegiant.com wrote: Schedule your upgrade

Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-26 Thread Phil Wilson
Message- From: Tobias Markmann [mailto:tmarkm...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 7:08 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades Hi Rob, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Rob

[WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-25 Thread Tobias Markmann
Hi, I'm currently trying to fix remaining issues in our WiX-based installer. The current issue I'm trying to fix is WiX/MSI behavior when upgrading an installation. Upgrading mostly does an uninstallation of the previous version and installs the new version. This automatically means that

Re: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades

2015-03-25 Thread Rob Mensching
] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 4:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Keep Desktop Shortcuts and Pinned Task Bar Icons with Upgrades Hi, I'm currently trying to fix remaining issues in our WiX-based installer. The current issue I'm trying to fix is WiX/MSI behavior when