[wix-users] Self-healing

[Phil Wilson]

Try working backwards from the Application Event Log MsiInstaller entries
from the repairs and see if they are for the same component. 

Repair can also be triggered from COM registration in the Class table, file
associations, and from conflicts with other installed products. WiX COM
registration using the Registry table would cause a difference in behavior
because it won't trigger repair. 

Phil W  

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
Colin Sim
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:55 AM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Subject: [wix-users] Self-healing

Hi all,

I have a WiX project that is a rewrite of an InstallShield project. However,
I'm noticing some behavioural differences that I don't understand around
self-healing (resiliency). For the InstallShield project, when I
double-click an EXE (regardless of whether it has an advertised shortcut or
not) a repair is triggered if any of the components (key pathed files) are
missing.  However, this does not happen for the WiX installer. The only way
I can get the repair to trigger is to invoke the advertised shortcut.

How do I get the WiX installer to behave the same way as the InstallShield
project? Is there a setting or configuration parameter that I'm missing?

Kind regards,
Colin

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