[wix-users] The product installed standalone with the setup exe is not fully uninstalled part of a suite

[Edwin Castro]

Taking a wild guess that the ISSuite doesn't install the bundle. It
installs the MSI directly.

My gut says you shouldn't be using a bundle or the ISSuite. Which one
likely depends on the use case.

--
Edwin G. Castro


On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 1:40 PM Hoover, Jacob via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Sounds more like a question for the makers of ISSuite. It should be
> invoking the bundle uninstall, not the MSI uninstall.
>
>
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
> Tigran Galoyan via wix-users
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 3:18 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Tigran Galoyan <tigran.galoyan at gmail.com>
> Subject: [wix-users] The product installed standalone with the setup exe
> is not fully uninstalled part of a suite
>
> Hello Community,
>
> I have a product that I generate a setup exe through a WiX project. I also
> generate the MSI package of that product and then that package is embedded
> into an Install Shield suite. If I install my product standalone through
> the setup.exe and then let's say if I run the ISSuite and uninstall all the
> products that come with it (including my MSI package), then my product
> doesn't get fully uninstalled. The files and folders get cleaned up, the
> related windows service gets removed, however, if I check the Control
> Panel's list of installed programs and features I still see my product
> listed there. If I go ahead and uninstall further from the Add/Remove
> program, then it also removes it from the Control Panel's list. However, if
> I would uninstall my product right from the beginning from the Control
> Panel then it would get uninstalled completely with no residues left.
>
> Is there a setting or whatsoever in my WiX installer project that makes it
> being installed/uninstalled using the setup.exe, but not from the suite as
> MSI package?
>
> Thanks,
> Tigran
>
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