I've followed the official Major Upgrade guide and I seem to be missing something. Here is my MCVE: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/20...

I have a very simple WiX project (version 3.7) that installs somes files (a .NET program version 6.0.0.0). I'm ready to release a new version 6.0.1.0 using the MajorUpgrade functionality in WiX. I...

A WiX installer product node has an attribute UpgradeCode. It is used to refer to previous versions of the same product. The value is stored in the UpgradeTable. The UpgradeTable is parsed by the F...

Under "Add or remove programs" i can see five versions: - ApplicationName v3.0.4.0 - ApplicationName v3.0.4.18 - ApplicationName v3.0.5.27 - ApplicationName v3.0.5.28 - ApplicationName v3.0.5.29 ...

I am trying to delete a file using a custom action scheduled between InstallInitialise and InstallFinalize standard action. MajorUpgrade element is used to design upgrades. However, I want the cu...

I have an application that we are switching over to a WiX installer. So far almost everything seems to be going well. The one problem I'm having is that if an older version is downloaded and attemp...

Recently I released a package versioned 0.8.3 and I'm ready to release a new package now. I was, however, struggling to implement a Major Upgrade / Upgrade. It seemed like the WIX_UPGRADE_DETECTED ...

We have an installer which requires a reboot on install, but it is also rebooting on uninstall. Is there a way we can prevent the reboot when uninstalling? This is what we have at the moment: &lt...

My WiX installer (Wix 3.10, MSI 4.5) uses MajorUpgrade for updating. The files to be installed are harvested with heat.exe in pre-build. The current (older) msi file contains a file nlog.dll (which...

I am installing all new versions of my software as major upgrades, as the installations are very small and most of the time, all files change anyway. I would like to skip one dialog in the install...

I am struggling to get MajorUpgrade, ServiceControl, .config files to work nicely together. After my other question, I'm now kinda having the opposite problem again. Before, the files weren't bei...

We are trying to do Major upgrade. While i was investigating i found 2 approaches. One is using Upgrade Id and another one approach was Majorupgrade tag. It seems Majorupgrade is easy to do it se...