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Hint: Be generous with upgrade codes

Major upgrades work across products by associating them with a single upgrade code: Version 1.0 of a product has a different product code than version 2.0 but both share the same upgrade code. The FindRelatedProducts action and MsiEnumRelatedProducts function find any products on the system with a particular upgrade code. The RemoveExistingProducts action then uninstalls [...]

Posted 07 September 2008 † Bob Arnson § Windows Installer ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

VirtualBox 1.6.0 setup another example of the second law of thermodynamics

VirtualBox, the desktop virtualization product acquired by Sun Microsystems in February, shipped version 1.6.0 on Friday. I previously mentioned VirtualBox in my blog post on setup testing with virtual machines. I lauded their clean setup and low custom-action count.
Unfortunately, the latest version hasn’t kept up that standard of Setup Goodness™.
The x64 package isn’t marked with [...]

Posted 05 May 2008 † Bob Arnson § Windows Installer ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: