WiX major upgrades/uninstalls with wyUpdate

Hey Dave,

We have a number of customers using WiX with wyUpdate successfully.

If I install 1.0 with a WiX installation, then update to 1.1 with wyUpdate will uninstall via Programs and Features uninstall all extra resources, files added via the 1.1 wyUpdate?

Use wyUpdate's /uninstall commandline option from within your WiX uninstaller.

Will a matching 1.1 WiX installer be able to cleanly repair and/or uninstall a 1.1 installation updated via wyUpdate as above?

If a users "repairs" the installation then they'll go back to the "1.0" version of your app, unless you also update the necessary WiX files (in which case a "repair" will go the the latest clean version). Or execute a dummy WiX installation that makes the necessary changes.

Basically I want users to be able to get to 1.1 either by a standard WiX 1.1 installer (running fresh, or a major upgrade over 1.0) or via wyUpdate without running into installation integrity issues if they mix and match.

So long as you disable "advertised shortcuts" (see step 5 of the step-by-step walkthrough) then everything will work fine.

Does that make sense?

[quotSam wrote:>

Will a matching 1.1 WiX installer be able to cleanly repair and/or uninstall> a 1.1 installation updated via wyUpdate as above?>

> > If a users "repairs" the installation then they'll go back to the "1.0" version of> your app, unless you also update the necessary WiX files (in which case a "repair"> will go the the latest clean version).

Thanks. What I'm asking here is if a new 1.1 installer can run over a 1.0 installation with a 1.1 wyUpdate and see it the same way as a normal 1.1 installation.

Yes.