Customizing MSI and Overwriting Application

Hi All,

I am currently using Access Developer Extentions to deploy my access ade file. What I need to do is the following:

1. I don't want my clients to see or choose to interfere with the installation. I can control this by editing the setup.ini file that access developer extentions create, by changing the value "Display=full" to "Display=basic". but I don't know where to edit the developer extentions tool so that it changes that automatcally when I package(generate the msi) my application.

2. Then Each time I have an upgrade to my application (and repackage), My clients need to first uninstall the previous version, and then install the next version. How can I correct this so that when the installer installs, it just overwrites the old version

The reason I want to do this is I have built in a feature in my application to check if the client application the user is opening, is the latest version, if not, it updates. This needs to run without any user interference and only let him know that he / she now can continue working.

Anyone got Ideas on these 2 questions

Thanks alot in advance

Rudi

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Customizing MSI and Overwriting Application

bill_chapin
Thanks Ken
johanm
You may want to post your question to the Access Developer's newsgroup. Here's the address:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.access.developers.toolkitode

Regards,

Ken Laws
MSFT

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Customizing MSI and Overwriting Application

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