[wix-users] MSI Version advice

[Frédérik St-Onge]

Alex,

Unfortunately, you will have to make your own system validation
implementation in order to do that. There are ways to know if a specific
Microsoft application is installed by looking at the registry.

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Alex Tuppen <alex.tuppen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am hoping that I could get some advice on the best way to handle an
> installer requirement that I have been given. Currently I have a bundle
> which contains an MSI for a Microsoft product and a few MSIs which just
> wrap custom actions to configure the system in specific ways (the
> application itself is cloud based).
>
> The problem is that the Microsoft application needs to be installed and be
> a minimum version, any version above the minimum version is fine and no
> action is required. Unfortunately if I run my bundle with a lower version
> of the application than is installed the MSI throws an error and terminates
> the install. This is a problem because we do not want to have to update the
> bundle every time Microsoft updates their software (and because my boss
> wants it to not need updating).
>
> I saw that the package was marked as obsolete in the logs so I tried having
> a look but couldn't find anyway for the custom bootstrapper to know this as
> well. If anyone has any ideas on how to resolve this I'd be very grateful.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Alex
>
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