[wix-devs] Burn error with large MSI product versions

[Joel Budreau]

Ugh, meant for this to go to the 'users' list..

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Joel Budreau <joel.budreau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have an MSI that I want to package into a burn bootstrapper. My MSI has
> UpgradeCode references to a different product. I only want to detect if the
> other product is installed or not. When I run my custom BA I see the
> following log message:
>
> Error 0x800200a: Failed to convert version: 3.6.0.4208657 to DWORD64 for
> ProductCode: ...
> Detect failed for package: <my package> ...
>
> So, it looks like the detect phase of my new bootstrapper will fail
> because some other product is using a build number that's too large.
>
> What's the recommended workaround here? Use some other mechanism besides
> the Upgrade table to detect if the other product is installed?
>
> Thanks,
> Joel
>