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[Jacob438]

I need some help with upgrades...

I have an installer that works fine upon first being run on a clean machine. Everything gets installed as it should. I am using one Setup.exe file, fyi. When we do a nightly build and the next morning we try to install it on the test server by running the new setup.exe file, a dialog pops up saying that it's going to perform an upgrade, so far so good...

I set a registry value under HKLM\Software\MyCompany\MyProduct\Version which gets set to [ProductVersion]. I do this via the IDE in IS8. The only problem is, this value isn't updated when performing an upgrade. The value obviously is changing, because we change the value of [ProductVersion] with every build, so why is the new key not being created? I am pulling my hair out over just trying to set a simple registry key to a string value and have it updated.

Any help you can provide on this issue or upgrades in general would be much appreciated,

Thanks in advance,

Jacob438

[Stefan Krueger]

What's the key path of the component that contains this registry entry? It should only be overwritten if the key path needs to be overwritten.