I'm working with the code below that my colleague wrote (who has now left the team) and I'm trying to find a more elegant way to wait for the uninstall process to finish. The code below has been generating some errors during upgrades because not enough time is given for the uninstall to complete.
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Waiting for uninstall to complete
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finnavear
, Aug 05 2005 15:44
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finnavear
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Posted 05 August 2005 - 15:44
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| // If there is a previous version installed uninstall it now. if( g_PerformUninstall = TRUE ) then UseDLL("shell32.dll"); hInstance = ShellExecuteA(NULL, "open", "msiexec.exe", "/qn /x{EE778344-B6AF-4374-90AA-312961EC577E}", SUPPORTDIR, SW_HIDE); UnUseDLL("shell32.dll"); // Wait for a while so that the uninstall can complete before we start installation. Sleep( 1500 ); endif; |
Without guessing and testing for a more reasonable amount of sleep time (my last resort), is there another way to do this?
Stefan Krueger
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Posted 09 August 2005 - 14:20
You could try (prototyping and) calling the MsiConfigureProduct API.
Stefan Krüger
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