Software Deployment

Check event viewer as it should tell you why a repair was needed. Sounds like you have a problem with your update ;)

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Thanks for ur quick reply.I did that the component code is for the main .exe file to which shortcut is pointing.

Hi packenegg,
are we talking about an app of yours or a vendor MSI?
If you built it yourself: Has your main.exe a proper version info resource? If yes, did you update the version info in the File table?
If not, go and check the MSIFileHash table. If you create a new version of a file, you need need new hashes in there.
Hope, this gives you some ideas.
Regards, Nick

Thanks All,

Finally issues is resolved .My package was unable to install one font file in installdir i made its attribute to Always overwrite by setting its vesion to highest value i.e 65535.0.0.0

Hope you don't need to author an upgrade with sequencing the RemoveExistingProducts action after the InstallFinalize action to update the file.

Hi packengg,
ORIGINAL: packengg
Finally issues is resolved .My package was unable to install one font file in installdir i made its attribute to Always overwrite by setting its vesion to highest value i.e 65535.0.0.0
Didn't even know that this can "work" like this!
IMHO, font files (format, ps or ttf doesn't matter) can't have a version resource included. How should Windows Installer detect the version then?
For unversioned files, you need to include a line in the MSIFileHash table, so WI can check the existing file against the hashes.
See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370107(VS.85).aspx
And especially this: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/08/30/458295.aspx
Hope this helps.
Regards, Nick