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Neil
Neil

Reputation: 1299

VS2008 Setup Project - No Repair Option

Is there anyway to disable the repair option so that if a user runs the msi again it automatically uninstalls without prompting for Repair/Remove options?

Edit: This is for a controlled corporate environment and has been passed down as a requirement.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1315

Answers (2)

Windows programmer
Windows programmer

Reputation: 8075

After reading your edit, I'll try to give a guess, though I don't really know if it's possible just with an msi file. A tool "orca" can be downloaded from Microsoft (unrelated to "orcas" which was code name for a Visual Studio version). "Orca" can edit some properties of msi files, so that would be one place I'd look for a possibility of disabling a repair option.

Another guess is that you might be able to insert a custom action early enough.

Upvotes: 2

Windows programmer
Windows programmer

Reputation: 8075

Isn't that really an unfriendly thing to do? Shouldn't the user get to decide whether they want a repair or an uninstall? Write a separate uninstall program if you want to provide an uninstaller with one less click.

Upvotes: 1

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