What version of Burn are you using? Can you share out the detect section of
the Burn log file?
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Rob Hamflett <r...@snsys.com> wrote:
> Ah. I haven't looked at Burn. Sorry. Hopefully someone else has the
> answer to that one.
>
> Rob
>
> On 04/07/2011 12:13, Alexander Krivács Schrøder wrote:
> > Hi Rob.
> >
> > I probably should have mentioned that the bootstrapper we're using is
> WiX's burn, and the managed GUI we're making is for it. The
> BootstrapperApplication class has an event called DetectPackageComplete. In
> this event, one gets the following EventArgs class:
> >
> > public class DetectPackageCompleteEventArgs
> > {
> > public string PackageId { get; }
> > public PackageState State { get; }
> > }
> >
> > It is this PackageState I am talking about; it doesn't get set to what we
> expect, as I mentioned in my first mail.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > ALEXANDER K. SCHRØDER
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Hamflett [mailto:r...@snsys.com]
> > Sent: 4. juli 2011 11:25
> > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper upgrade code detection
> >
> > If you were using native code, then you'd want MsiEnumRelatedProducts().
> A Google search provides a bunch of links with info on how to call it from
> C#. I don't know if you're using C# or VB, but a bit of searching around
> that function name should get you there.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > On 04/07/2011 09:52, Alexander Krivács Schrøder wrote:
> >> Hey.
> >>
> >> According to the Windows Installer specifications, we change the Product
> Code of our product with every release (We just use<Product Id="*" ... />)
> and we keep the Upgrade Code the same. That way, when the individual MSIs
> are run, if any previous versions exist, they are first uninstalled.
> >>
> >> At the moment, we're making a bootstrapper for our products, and in this
> process, we're also making a custom managed GUI. It detects if a product is
> already installed (its PackageState is reported as PackageState.Present) or
> not installed (PackageState.Absent). However, if a product is installed, but
> the bootstrapper contains a newer version of the product, it is reported as
> PackageState.Absent, not PackageState.Superseded, like one would expect.
> >>
> >> Is there anything in particular we need to do in order to get this
> upgrade detection mechanism to work?
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >> ALEXANDER K. SCHRØDER
> >>
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