How do you update Installed Product information with WIX DTF?

Question

Using DTF i can get the installed product fine using the following code.

        var product = (from p in ProductInstallation.AllProducts
                       where p.Publisher == CompanyName && p.ProductName == ProductName
                       select p).FirstOrDefault();

But the properties i want to update don't have a setter. Like the Version. Everything else in DTF seems to be against an MSI not an installed product

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 18 '12 at 11:10

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It doesn't have a setter because that wouldn't make sense If I have FOO.MSI 1.0 and install it, it gets registered with MSI. Why would should I then be able to tell MSI that it's really 1.1? I'd have to get FOO.MSI 1.1 and performa an upgrade in order to be able to do that.

answered Apr 18 '12 at 11:10

Christopher Painter

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The problem is the files are patched with a separate service but the windows installer detects the change and runs a repair. I need a way to tell it what its been updated to – Ryan Burnham Apr 18 '12 at 23:48
While you should only service (patch) and MSI with an MSP, I happen to know from (renegade) experience that as long as you version the EXE/DLL files higher MSI won't trigger a repair (resilency) and if you manually invoke a repair your higher version will remain. If you do however delete the DLL and do a repair you'll get the old version back. – Christopher Painter Apr 19 '12 at 00:33
right, what would happen if you replaced it with the same version? would it do a repair? BTW the original install is done using InstallShield. – Ryan Burnham Apr 19 '12 at 00:35
Provided InstallShield wasn't set to "always overwrite" it would be preserved. – Christopher Painter Apr 19 '12 at 01:03

How do you update Installed Product information with WIX DTF?

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