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How do I ensure my winform application deployment overwrites old versions

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c#

winforms

deployment

I have created a msi install package for my project from the VS2008 deployment project. but I am having problems when it comes to upgrading installs, The previously installed version does not get overwritten. How do I ensure that previously installed versions get overwritten?

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fishhead Avatar asked Feb 08 '10 13:02

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  1. In Visual Studio select your Setup project within the Solution Explorer
  2. Open the Properties Window
    • don't right click and select properties.
    • select View - Properties Window
  3. set RemovePreviousVersions to true
  4. increment the version to a higher number
  5. select yes in the upcoming message box

If you built and deploy this new setup, a setup with an older version number will be deleted.

Important: the setup version number is completely independent from your application or assembly version number!

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Oliver Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 23:09

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