(Thanks to Rob's post, too.) But: I am not sure why I read both the post, the WiX documentation (under Component), but it sounds like to me that the Guid attribute on Component is what is supposed to be stable, not the ComponentId.
Nevertheless, I have written a new mechanism for generating the ComponentIds for our front end, which will include the version of the package so when the product is upgraded we can generate a new one for each item. Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-4674 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -----Original Message----- From: Douglas, Keith - CoSD/DSCo Sent: June-12-15 12:03 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: RE: Removing files as part of upgrade Oh, you have to generate a new component ID? Is that the trick? I had forgotten that. Hm, that's going to be interesting for our front end thing to keep track of, since it makes componentids as it goes for everything so that the WXS can be automatically generated from a list of files and various rules and such. Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-4674 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -----Original Message----- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: June-12-15 11:57 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Removing files as part of upgrade If the app is modifying the files, the RemoveFIle should be in the MSI for the version that installed the file. The real question is why is your app modifying the installed files. Could it not be changed to use the default file if an override didn't exist? Then have the app copy the installed file to a per-user/per-machine common app folder, for the customizations? If you are renaming files, as long as you follow the component rules, a major upgrade should remove the old file and apply the new one. (IE, the old file and new file, should not share the same component ID.) -----Original Message----- From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 10:48 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Removing files as part of upgrade We have some applications which will be changing the actual files they install as they upgrade in the sense that new names will be used. I notice that my default way of doing the upgrades does not *delete* the old ones. (I.e., creating a new WXS with the same upgrade code as the old one but with new components, etc.) What's the best way to go about doing this? Do I have to put in a RemoveFile for everything?? What if the directory changes? Keith Douglas Programmer Analyst | Programmeur analyste Questionnaire Development Services - CAI Social | Services de développement de questionnaires - IAO Social Jean Talon Building | Immeuble Jean-Talon / Floor | Étage 4 A-3 Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-4674 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
