The answer would be no. Changing the Product Code means it's not a Minor
Upgrade, it's a Major Upgrade. See ->
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370579.aspx

You could deploy the changes as an MSP rather than an MSI.

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-----Original Message-----
From: warne warne [mailto:warne...@hotmail.com] 
Sent: 07 June 2010 13:10
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] minor upgrade and RemoveExistingProducts


 

Hi, is it any way possible possible to do a minor upgrade and
automatically remove related products in the background?  I want to keep
the same product code basically.

 

The scenario is I made some bug fixes to our product that dont seem to
warrant a major upgrade. My version numbers are only going from, say,
2.0.1 to 2.0.2. Im using a RemoveExistingProducts action to uninstall
any previously installed versions quietly in the background with the
same upgrade code. It works fine if I change the product code but I get
the 'Another version of the product is already installed..' dialog if I
use the same Product Code. Have to manually uninstall the old one first
to continue with the new install which is a pain for testers and users.

 

I realise this is probably by design and an msi issue, but it just seems
counter intuitive, for the sake of a minor upgrade, to have to change to
a new product code (only to get a previous version to uninstall). In my
case I have 3 revisions of a similar product so would involve a lot of
product code changes every time I do a bug fix. Would be great if I
could keep my product codes the same until it really is a 'major
upgrade'.

 

thanks very much once again!
                                          
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