No uninstall before install

[guidorobben]

Is it possible to make it so that I can install a new version of S2D I don't have to uninstall the old version first?

Guido

[loopylee1965]

not 100% sure m8 but i think you have to unistall old version befor you can install new version hope this helps ? loopylee

[guidorobben]

With MSI you don't have to anymore. I sees the old version and uninstalls it before it installs the new version. No I have to it by hand what can be done automaticly.

[CBC]

guido-

Uninstalling S2D takes about 20 seconds. Is that a problem?

[ChrissyBoy]

With MSI you don't have to anymore. I sees the old version and uninstalls it before it installs the new version. No I have to it by hand what can be done automaticly.

I'll take a look at this but i do remember reading somewhere that the MSI creation that is built into Visual Studio has problems with this. If the workaround is not heinous i will include it.

[ChrissyBoy]

FYI here is the thing i read:

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/msi_upgrade_uninstall.asp

[Jikchung]

As CBC said, uninstall takes only a few seconds as opposed to (what looks to me) a lot of work for CB with no assurance of a complete uninstall. Seems like a support nightmare waiting to happen (just look st the number of dnbxxx posts that could have been resolved by a simple search).

I for one would prefer that CB be able use the time on other aspects of the program.

A manual uninstall just isn't that difficult or time consuming.

[guidorobben]

Doesn't matter if it doesn't work. It seems like MS did not do there job. You would think this would be something like setting a checkbox. Lets hop 2005 solves this problem.