Check for a file version from a Wix Bootstrapper Bundle

Question

I've created a bootstrapper application for my WIX installer. One of the installers that I am bundling needs to have an install condition based on the version of a file that is allready installed. I don't have access to the source of the installer in question, so I can't put the condition in that installer.

I have found in the documentation how to create a file version based condition inside of an MSI. ()

My question is how do I use a similar condition directly in an bootstrapper project.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '12 at 20:25

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Use FileSearch from WixUtilExtension to get the version of the file into a Burn variable. You can use the Burn variable in a package's InstallCondition.

answered Sep 21 '12 at 20:25

Bob Arnson

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How do I search for a file version that is not necessarily in a fixed path? I have an outlook plugin, and to find out the outlook version i need to go to one registry key to find the outlook current version, and based on that i must go to another registry key specific to that outlook version that tells me where that specific version of outlook is installed. THEN I must find the version of outlook.exe to find out if it is SP3 or not – Alex Aug 27 '15 at 13:44

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 26 '14 at 14:11

as stated by Bob Arnson, you can get a version in bootstrap project like this

<util:FileSearch  
        Id="CheckVer"
        Path="[CommonFilesFolder]\xyz\xyz\abc.dll"
        Variable="FILEVERSION" 
        Result="version" />

FILEVERSION will contain the version of the dll or exe. as described in the documentation FileSearch Element

Check for a file version from a Wix Bootstrapper Bundle

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