How can I disable repair?

Question

I'm using WixSharp for building a windows service installer.

I want to disable repair option.

using those properties remove the option from the Control Panel ONLY.

"ARPNOREPAIR" , "ARPNOMODIFY"

Is there a way to disable repair from the CMD and right click on *.msi->repair?

No, it is a built in feature of Windows installer. What is causing the requirement to disable it? Are you seeing values overwritten? — Stein Åsmul, Oct 14 '21 at 14:32
@ Stein Åsmul, we just don't want to support the repair or support all the way, in the Event Viewer it shows as reconfigure — R.P, Oct 14 '21 at 14:35
Are you overwriting your binaries with new ones as part of deployment testing? — Stein Åsmul, Oct 14 '21 at 20:56
I'm not sure. I'm a developer, not a testser. Thought I don't think so . — R.P, Oct 16 '21 at 19:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '21 at 14:33

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No. MSI repair can never be fully disabled. The best practice is to account for this and design/test accordingly.

If your problem is the username/password is being set back then you can put conditions on the CreateServices to not run during a repair.

answered Oct 14 '21 at 14:33

Can't I do some abort to installations that detect as repair? Is there a way in wix to detect it? – R.P Oct 14 '21 at 14:38
sure but that would be a horrible user experience. It would still try to do a repair and then come back and say it failed. – Christopher Painter Oct 14 '21 at 14:47
do you think it's better practice to have it disable partially than abort? – R.P Oct 14 '21 at 15:18
That's what disable repair and it's really not great user friendly.. Thanks to @oleg-shilo installer.Load += e => { if (e.IsRepairing) { MessageBox.Show("Repair is not supported"); e.Result = ActionResult.UserExit; } }; – R.P Oct 16 '21 at 20:10

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