I don't know the Wix for an appsearch for a component guid, sorry. Phil Wilson
-----Original Message----- From: Harvey Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:34 PM To: Wilson, Phil; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How to use the registry to detect if a productisinstalled I have never used AppSearch before and the WiX docs are very vague on it. Can you give me an example of how it's used? Harvey Werner > -----Original Message----- > From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:43 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to use the registry to detect if a > productisinstalled > > There isn't a data item called ProductVersion under those those > registry keys. > > Why not use a component guid in an AppSearch instead? > > Phil Wilson > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harvey > Werner > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:09 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] How to use the registry to detect if a product > isinstalled > > I would like to use the Windows registry (and not the file system) to > detect if a package is already installed. > > I was thinking of using something like this, but can't seem to get it > to work. I most likely have the logic wrong in CDATA. > > <Property Id="PACKAGE_INSTALLED"> > <RegistrySearch > Id="REG_FOUND" > Root="HKLM" > > Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{xxxx > xxxx-xxxx- > xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}" > Name="ProductVersion" > Type="raw" > Win64="no" /> > </Property> > > <Condition > Message="Package X is installed. Please uninstall it before > trying again."> > <![CDATA[(NOT PACKAGE_INSTALLED) OR REMOVE]]> > </Condition> > > Any advice is appreciated. > > -- > Harvey Werner > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > - > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
