Hi!
In my windows installer project I place some files in the users "My documents" ... but when I uninstall the program the files stay in the directory and when I reinstall they do not get overwritten like I would like them to be.
Any ideas on how to solve this?
/P
Seems a duplicate of my old question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/674233/how-can-i-make-the-msi-overwrite-old-files
This link helped me a lot -- turns out there is a flag called REINSTALLMODE that is not accessible via the Visual Studio deployment projects. You need to find and download the Microsoft utility called 'Orca' to set a flag that forces a reinstall of all files regardless of the date, version, etc.
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/DotNet/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework/2009-01/msg00161.html