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

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


"jani" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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

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" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>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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Umm, yep, there is


"Ricola !" <(E-Mail Removed)> 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" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>>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/
>

"james" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Umm, yep, there is
>
>

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

Willy.