"Zdenek Drlik" <drlik@asd-software.cz> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I am developing installer project in Visual Studio 2003 for my components
> and I have a problem with upgrading assemblies in GAC. I need upgrading
> these assemblies with newer ones (AssemblyVersion is the same, but
> AssemblyFileVersion is different) and I wanted to do so with installer. I
> set up RemovePreviousVersions to True and increase installer Version, but
> after running this installer package on machine, old assemblies from GAC
> are deleted, newer ones aren'nt installed there. I must run installer
> package again, select Repair and after that I have installed newer
> assemblies.
> Is it a bug in Visual Studio installer package, or I am missing something?
> If it is a bug, does any workaround or any patch to VS or something else
> exist to solve this problem?
> Thanks,
>
> Zdenek D.

gyurisc wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can you try to edit your msi with this tool
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=105dfc41-801e-4441-aa75-7696d794f109&displaylang=en
>
> You need the tall called orca, and move the RemoveExistingProduct before
> Costinitialize in the InstallExecuteSequence table by changing the sequence
> numbers. It may help but the last time that I had a problem like this, the
> solution was this ;-)
>
> Cris

"Zdenek Drlik" <drlik@asd-software.cz> wrote in message
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> gyurisc wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can you try to edit your msi with this tool
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=105dfc41-801e-4441-aa75-7696d794f109&displaylang=en
>>
>> You need the tall called orca, and move the RemoveExistingProduct before
>> Costinitialize in the InstallExecuteSequence table by changing the
>> sequence numbers. It may help but the last time that I had a problem
>> like this, the solution was this ;-)
>>
>> Cris
>
> Hello,
> this trick helps solve my problem, thanks. ;-)
>
> Zdenek