Thanks Bob for your rapid response. As I told I am new to Wix upgrades and my knowledge on windows installer is very limited.
I was wondering if the approach that i having is the right one.Let me explain the main propose of it: We will produce in our weekly builds two setups. One that is the full installation and other that have almost the same components that the full install except files that the user changes (settings files), the application database and customs actions that setup the server environment on the clean install. If a new customer buy our application the full install will be delivered. In meanwhile the upgrade will be distributed to the current customers. With this approach we will have the latest source code always on the upgrade msi. I know that this strategy will produce big upgrade msi and if a critical bug is fixed the customer will receive the all application files, but is a compromise to avoid the management of several patches and several wix files. The idea is to create the upgrade as minor upgrades to avoid the change of ProductCode. What do you think of this ? My boss wants to keep track of the upgrades that has been installed. The idea is to do something like MS style to keep track of the dates and versions that were installed. In MS office for example we can see in add and remove programs the entry to the application and if we check the "Show Updates" checkboxs a list of updates to the application are showed. I was wondering what kind of upgrades are it? Patches? Minor upgrades? Thanks Tiago On 9/12/06, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tiago Silva wrote: > > I have the main setup of the application that is generated by a nant > > task. At the same time a upgrade is generated to the current version. > > Let's consider the version 1.0.0.40 on both. > > > MSI doesn't differentiate between product versions in the fourth field > so you won't be able to do major upgrades between 1.0.0.40 and 1.0.0.41. > See the MSI doc for details on ProductVersion. > > 2. It is possible to see the history of all upgrades in the add and > > remove programs of by checking the "Show Updates" Check boxes? > > > ARP shows only products and patches. > > 3. Does anybody knows a good source of snippets regarding this > > subject. I think that the wix documentation lacks a little bit on > > upgrades. > > > See http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson4.php. > > -- > sig://boB > http://bobs.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
