Thanks Rob.  Much appreciated.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Rob Mensching
<rob.mensch...@microsoft.com>wrote:

> My reading of the MSI SDK says you need to provide a command-line for minor
> upgrades.  Always made them pretty useless (unless you had a bootstrapper
> already) if you ask me. <shrug/>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cemiles [mailto:chad.mi...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 14:02
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] double-clickable minor upgrade msi solution? is there
> any route?
>
>
> I have a minor upgrade msi that I want to be double-clickable, but when I
> try
> it pops the dialog stating an existing product is already installed.
> Understood and expected, and from reading up I'm seeing it's not really a
> plausible solution, but I'm still curious if there's some way to do this
> aside from a bootstrapper.
>
> I would've thought if I use a type 51 to set the properties I'm using on
> the
> cmd line (REINSTALLMODE/ADDLOCAL/etc) early in the sequence it should work,
> but no success :(
>
>
> I'm stuck in a pickle where I can't do a patch due to component/feature
> restrictions, and in my case a major upgrade is out of the question, so if
> anyone has found a solution to date I'd be very gracious to here it!
>
> Thanks,
> Chad
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