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Make sure features are always enabled so they can be removed

The WiX installer had a bug that I noticed during our transition from Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2008. If you had the Votive feature installed for VS2005 and VS2008, then uninstalled VS2005, the Votive feature was "orphaned" and couldn’t be uninstalled. The cause is that the Votive features are enabled only when the [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 † Bob Arnson § WiX § Windows Installer ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: