kpallise1.5524936925125474E12 asked a question.
User runs setup twice in a row
OK, after searching all over. Could someone kindly please help me.
I built a setup.exe basic MSI for an app.
Works perfectly.
As I always test stupid user actions, I ran the setup again and IS offered to 'upgrade' my app.
PLEASE - what am I missing?? How do I stop this crazy 'upgrade' dialog.
I know in the past I wrote a vbs custom action to check if the app was installed already. But that was 2 years ago and surely there is a better way.
I just spent a thousand dollars on upgrading IS 2009 Pro to 2010 & have loaded SP1.
Would love a reply.
Many thanks.:confused:
Uninstall the setup and then try running the setup twice and you should see the maintenance window during the execution of second time execution.
Thanks,
Alpesh
Also I am taking care not to mess up the product code for my application. Everything seems ok now. The second run gives the maintenance UI now. Which is as expected.
I am about to release a major upgrade to my app. I hope it can "just work". I need to replace the .exe and a .chm help file totally uninstalling existing app.
So I'm wondering that when I do this will the 'setup.exe' (still a basic MSI with IS wrapper) also be the same 'setup.exe' for NEW customers??
Lucky its freeware and I don't need to do UAC bypass writes to HKLM. Though I have all that sorted out for my paid for apps... (they launch a little exe with require admin manifest to write to the real HKLM).
Thanks for the reply.