The WiX.chm provides pretty good documentation about what the WiX provided
UIs provide. They don't support your scenario because no one needed it *and*
contributed it.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Tom Quarendon
<tom.quaren...@teamwpc.co.uk>wrote:

> I suppose I'm just slightly surprised I have to do this myself, that there
> isn't some kind of user interface build in to do that notification. It's not
> a problem, I was just trying to understand that I am indeed expected to do
> that myself. It's often hard to tell with MSI/WiX what you're supposed to do
> yourself verses what is done automatically, or what is provided as
> pre-canned bits by WiX.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
> Sent: 29 September 2011 20:54
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Getting notification of an upgrade
>
> Yeah, whatever you want to do.
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Tom Quarendon
> <tom.quaren...@teamwpc.co.uk>wrote:
>
> > And so the point is that I then need to author my own dialog that gets
> > displayed based on that property being set?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
> > Sent: 29 September 2011 15:59
> > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Getting notification of an upgrade
> >
> > If you use the MajorUpgrade element, it should set the
> > WIX_UPGRADE_DETECTED property. If you do your own major upgrade
> > authoring, you can create a property of your own choosing.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Tom Quarendon
> > <tom.quaren...@teamwpc.co.uk>wrote:
> >
> > > I've been playing with understanding upgrading in MSI/WiX, but the
> > > thing that I've not yet understood is that the upgrade appears to
> > > happen completely silently.
> > > How do I get some kind of feedback in the user interface to say
> > > "we've found version x already installed, this will upgrade it", and
> > > maybe skip the feature selection part. I find the quiet upgrade a
> > > bit disconcerting. Do I now have both versions installed side by
> > > side? Or has it upgraded? (I'm being an end user there)
> > >
> > > Thanks.
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