[wix-users] Weird un-install behavior

[Phill Hogland]

When I read your original post I may have misunderstood your concern to be related to when MSI launches an 'on-demand' install of your MSI package without launching Burn.  The Burn Variables/@Persisted feature is a really great feature if you are certain that the MSI will always be driven by Burn (and a 'on-demand' install of the MSI will not occur ).   Generally I implement both, using Burn Variables/@persist and serializing any changes prior to the Apply phase as well as implementing the RememberProperty pattern for any public property passed into a MSI so that the MSI still functions in 'on-demand' scenarios.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of jayd page
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 3:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Weird un-install behavior

Thank you Phill and Rob.

Adding the Persisted="yes" to my burn variable worked like a charm so I did
not have to implement the RememberProperty pattern.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> Burn Variables can be marked Persisted-"yes"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Phill Hogland
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> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Weird un-install behavior
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> It sounds like you need to implement a 'RememberProperty' pattern so that
> any values you pass to a MSI using Burn (or on a command line to the MSI)
> are available when doing 'on-demand' MSI actions.
>
> http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/5/2/the-wix-toolsets-remember-property-pattern/
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