We have a basic Installshield 2008 project and since we update our program on a very regular basis I did not want to mess with the Upgrade Table because all of the files need to be reinstalled anyways and there are only 6 or so files.
The problem is when I change our exe files and build a new release through Installshield it comes up with the Modify/Reinstall/Remove screen and no matter if I pick Modify or Reinstall it goes through the motion but never installs the new versions of the files.
The stupid thing is that I've tried just about everything I can think of and this should be the easiest thing in the world. If I manually delete or rename the files it will reinstall it with both the Modify and the Reinstall settings but I can run it 100 times without deleting them and it won't.
And sometimes it will come up into the Modify/Reinstall/Remove screen and other times it just comes into a Resume Setup Screen. Some things I have tried are: 1.) Setting each files properties to Always Overwrite 2.) Changing the ReinstallModeText property to amusv 3.) Tried adding The Reinstall = ALL and ReinstallMode = [ReinstallModeText] events to the Maintenance Type dialogs using the _IsMaintenance = "Change" condition. 4.) And about a hundered other things which don't seam to help.
Somebody please help me. I've used 5 or 10 other installer packages through the years and not once have we ran into this problem.
If you haven't yet, perhaps try creating a minor upgrade item in the Upgrades view of your project? That will create a setup.exe that passes the command-line switches used by a minor upgrade (if an appropriate target is already on the system, otherwise just runs as a first-time installation), and performs upgrade validation during the build process...
Thanks and I've tried adding both minor and major upgrades to it and still no luck. It looks like since I had deleted a component that maybe that was the problem. I tried this and it seams to have worked.
1.) Create a major upgrade. 2.) Then generate a new Product Code in the Project Properties.
Right, it is not possible to delete a component in a minor upgrade. The following help topic lists some other common upgrade tasks, and shows which types of upgrades (major, minor, small) support each task: Major Upgrade vs. Minor Upgrade vs. Small Update
This help topic also shows which codes need to be changed for each type of upgrade.
