Upgrades work fine if no components have changed, but any time a component changes the upgrade fails and it requires the user to manually uninstall and reinstall. Some snippets: <Product Id="*" Name="My Application" Language="1033" Version="!(bind.FileVersion.ClientEXE)" Manufacturer="My Company" UpgradeCode="MYGUID-b94a-44eb-8e92-9286...
Say I have app version 1.0 released on the app store. Then I want to release version 1.1. I will keep existing data that was copied out of the app bundle and into the app's sandbox. These are some XML config files and a sqlite db the user can write data to. These files could need updates that preserve their existing data. What is the b...
I'm starting to use LINQ as a true query language in code to help improve readability. Until recently I was afraid to touch LINQ because of the LINQ to SQL team move under the Entity Framework team (trying to ignore that conversation here) -- will LINQ the query language be a safe bet going forward (as much as anything in this fast movi...
I have upgraded my project from vb6 to VB.NET. The project is used to generate pdf files.. while upgrading I'm getting following problem. Code: 'UPGRADE_ISSUE: Constant vbUnicode was not upgraded. Click for more: 'ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/commoner/redir/redirect.htm?keyword="vbup2070"' 'taptisColor = IIf(mvarEncodeASCII85, ToA...
From the little I understand, svn 1.5 provides much better support for merge operations. So I'm considering upgrading from svn 1.4. The repository sits in a local file (more or less), and I use svn from the command line. What hurdles can I expect and how will svn 1.5 handle the existing repository without the merge data? edit: In parti...
We have decided to take the plunge and require that our users have .NET 3.5 installed before they can use our media center plug-in. I want to make sure the install experience is as smooth as possible and that our installer stays small. What changes do I need to make to my WiX file to support the following scenarios? Code examples woul...
Do you have to trigger a Major upgrade with a Windows Installer if one of the files has changed since the previous install? ...
Our production machines are running on debian etch. Now, they finally released lenny, the day will come we need to upgrade these systems. How can I do this with minimal risk? Are there any premises, preparations of fall-back scenarios and do I need a plan B in case something goes wrong? Besides the binary packages handled by the debian i...
I have an InstallShield 12 installscript. I want to uninstall the old version before installing the new version. I will keep the name of the package unchanged. How can I do this? ...
When installing DNN 04.09.02 upgrade (from DNN 4.8.4) I receive System.IndexOutOfRangeException: PermanentRedirect error and cannot install the upgrade. How do I get around this so I can install the upgrade? ...
I am looking for some ideas on how to offer a installation package for my ASP.NET website. Some things I need to be able to do is read/write Registry keys, get the database(s) information and test the connection and I must be able to overwrite the existing website without an uninstall and update the web config on new versions. I do not w...
We have a fairly large Windows based 1.1 .NET application that we are considering moving up to 2.0. The main reason we are considering the update is so we can utilize Visual Studio 2008 for ongoing development on the project, as well as we use the Infragistics Suite of controls and the 1.1 set is no longer being updated with new feature...
It is pretty standard practice now for desktop applications to be self-updating. On the Mac, every non-Apple program that uses Sparkle in my book is an instant win. For Windows developers, this has already been discussed at length. I have not yet found information on self-updating web applications, and I hope you can help. I am building...
I am building a .NET based windows service. Part of its functionality is supposed to be checking if a newer version of itself is available on a site. It is then supposed to download the new "package" and somehow upgrade itself. Anyone know of any libraries that can help with that? I am assuming I will run into issues of overwriting the e...
I have a .NET 1.0 program that I've had to use a disassembler on in order to recover the source code. Once I had the code files using File Disassembler I used VS2008 to upgrade it. I've managed to get the application to the point where it is able to compile...but when I run it I get an error message saying Fatal error, exiting: Coul...
I have created a custom action that gets triggered via UI. It works fine for new install but fails during upgrade. However, if I run a repair from control panel, it then runs fine. I tried capturing msi log but it does not give any clue. Here are the snippets... UI: <Control Id="CloseButton" Type="PushButton" X="230" Y="243" Width="66"...
i work at a large company and we haven't distributed dotnet runtimes 3.0+ out to the desktops so we are all using vs 2005 and c# 2.0 is there any big benefit of moving to vs 2008 and still targeting 2.0 (since the runtime deployment will not be there soon) for the developers. also, if the suggestion is to do the upgrade to vs 2008, are...
Howdy, I have asked a question on another thread about upgrading long running workflows and have not received an answer that I wanted to hear. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/357032/how-to-upgrade-a-long-running-sharepoint-workflow-already-in-production) The answer, which matches up with the other research I have done on this topic...
A server was upgraded from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 and now I can't access environment variables from Ant build scripts. I can still access them fine from a command line, but ${env.JAVA_HOME} for instance fails. How can I fix this without rewriting ~100 build scripts that work on all other servers to be customized for this server? ...
I upgrade perl from perl58 to perl588 on Suse Linux.It looks that even though the Config.pm exists for the older version the newer version installation breaks the older version.While the upgrade of Perl on other OSes like HP and AIX does not disturb the older version. For eg: The perl58 and perl588 versions are present in folder say "/us...