As an aside, check if your old install and new install have the same ALLUSERS setting. A per-machine install cannot upgrade a per-user install. Also if you are looking at a log file, FindRelatedProducts is going to be more interesting to look at since it's the once that looks at all the state data and sets the Action property(s) to the ProductCode(s) that will later be acted upon by RemoveExistingProducts.
Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 3:23:58 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problems with getting RemoveExistingProducts to work >> I've double-checked and the Product ID and Upgrade Code both match what was used in the previous versions Only the UpgradeCode should match, Product ID should be new. Neil -----Original Message----- From: s...@pacaccess.com [mailto:s...@pacaccess.com] Sent: 25 May 2010 07:56 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Problems with getting RemoveExistingProducts to work Prior to my upcoming release I used a VisualStudio deployment project to create the installer. For my upcoming release I've built an installer using Wix. Everything seems to be working with the exception of installing the new version on top a previously installed version. When I run my new installer created with Wix, the old version still remains installed. Within the wix script I have (amongst other things): <Product Name="MyProductName" Manufacturer="MyCompanyName" Version="1.1.5" Language="1033" Id="Guid_1" UpgradeCode="Guid_2"> <Upgrade Id="Guid_2"> <UpgradeVersion Minimum="1.0.0" Maximum="1.1.5" IncludeMinimum="yes" Property="OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED" /> </Upgrade> <InstallExecuteSequence> <RemoveExistingProducts After="InstallInitialize" /> </InstallExecuteSequence> I've double-checked and the Product ID and Upgrade Code both match what was used in the previous versions (1.1.0 - 1.1.4). From what I've read it looks like this is the correct syntax and manner to use RemoveExistingProducts, yet when I run my new installer with the old version installed, the old version remains. Thanks for any help, Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
