Deploymnet MSI Update question

[jani]

Hi,
i have a c#.net application and a setup project for it. All worked
fine. Now i make some changes and want to give our customers an update
msi file. I do not want that the customer deinstall the old version,
because i must keep the existing config xml file and add the
additional xml nodes.

i changed the version of the assembly and setup project, productcode,
packagecode and compilied the new msi. But the new msi does not
replace the old dlls.
i have also tried msiexec /i [msifile] reinstall=all
reinstallmode=vomos but it was the same.

Does anyone know how to do a update msi without deinstall with visual
studio 2003 or other free tools?

thanks a lot

Jani

[james]

You should post this to microsoft.public.windows.msi, thisgroup is for is
for CSharp
"jani" <ja******@gmx.net> wrote in message
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Hi,
i have a c#.net application and a setup project for it. All worked
fine. Now i make some changes and want to give our customers an update
msi file. I do not want that the customer deinstall the old version,
because i must keep the existing config xml file and add the
additional xml nodes.

i changed the version of the assembly and setup project, productcode,
packagecode and compilied the new msi. But the new msi does not
replace the old dlls.
i have also tried msiexec /i [msifile] reinstall=all
reinstallmode=vomos but it was the same.

Does anyone know how to do a update msi without deinstall with visual
studio 2003 or other free tools?

thanks a lot

Jani

[Ricola !]

james wrote:

You should post this to microsoft.public.windows.msi, thisgroup is for is
for CSharp
There's a newsgroup for msi?

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to laugh...



"jani" <ja******@gmx.net> wrote in message
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Hi,
i have a c#.net application and a setup project for it. All worked
fine. Now i make some changes and want to give our customers an update
msi file. I do not want that the customer deinstall the old version,
because i must keep the existing config xml file and add the
additional xml nodes.

i changed the version of the assembly and setup project, productcode,
packagecode and compilied the new msi. But the new msi does not
replace the old dlls.
i have also tried msiexec /i [msifile] reinstall=all
reinstallmode=vomos but it was the same.

Does anyone know how to do a update msi without deinstall with visual
studio 2003 or other free tools?

thanks a lot

Jani

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[james]

Umm, yep, there is
"Ricola !" <se****************@tower.effeil> wrote in message
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james wrote:

You should post this to microsoft.public.windows.msi, thisgroup is for is
for CSharp

There's a newsgroup for msi?

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to laugh...

"jani" <ja******@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:ac**************************@posting.google.c om...

Hi,
i have a c#.net application and a setup project for it. All worked
fine. Now i make some changes and want to give our customers an update
msi file. I do not want that the customer deinstall the old version,
because i must keep the existing config xml file and add the
additional xml nodes.

i changed the version of the assembly and setup project, productcode,
packagecode and compilied the new msi. But the new msi does not
replace the old dlls.
i have also tried msiexec /i [msifile] reinstall=all
reinstallmode=vomos but it was the same.

Does anyone know how to do a update msi without deinstall with visual
studio 2003 or other free tools?

thanks a lot

Jani

--
Texeme Textcasting Technology
http://texeme.com

Indie Pop Rocks @ SomaFM
http://somafm.com/

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

"james" <no****@hypercon.net> wrote in message
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Umm, yep, there is

Actually there are two, microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi is the other one.

Willy.