Comments on: Automatically Increment WiX Installer Product Version http://www.jamesthigpen.com/blog/2009/01/15/automatically-increment-wix-installer-product-version/ I Write Software. Rawr. Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:18:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Tim Long http://www.jamesthigpen.com/blog/2009/01/15/automatically-increment-wix-installer-product-version/comment-page-1/#comment-24960 Tim Long Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:07:55 +0000 http://www.jamesthigpen.com/blog/2009/01/15/automatically-increment-wix-installer-product-version/#comment-24960 Sorry, the XML tags didn't come out in my previous comment. Here it is again without angle brackets... <code>Consider using bind variables to pick up your installer version from one of your assemblies. I do it like this... <code><Product Id="{...}" Name="$(var.ProductName)" Language="1033" Version="!(bind.FileVersion.filDriverAssembly)" Manufacturer="$(var.Manufacturer)" UpgradeCode="{...}"></code> </code> Sorry, the XML tags didn’t come out in my previous comment. Here it is again without angle brackets…
Consider using bind variables to pick up your installer version from one of your assemblies. I do it like this...

<Product Id="{...}" Name="$(var.ProductName)" Language="1033" Version="!(bind.FileVersion.filDriverAssembly)" Manufacturer="$(var.Manufacturer)" UpgradeCode="{...}">

]]> By: Tim Long http://www.jamesthigpen.com/blog/2009/01/15/automatically-increment-wix-installer-product-version/comment-page-1/#comment-24959 Tim Long Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:06:22 +0000 http://www.jamesthigpen.com/blog/2009/01/15/automatically-increment-wix-installer-product-version/#comment-24959 Consider using bind variables to pick up your installer version from one of your assemblies. I do it like this... <code></code> Consider using bind variables to pick up your installer version from one of your assemblies. I do it like this…

]]> By: Nicholas Piasecki http://www.jamesthigpen.com/blog/2009/01/15/automatically-increment-wix-installer-product-version/comment-page-1/#comment-14930 Nicholas Piasecki Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:05:13 +0000 http://www.jamesthigpen.com/blog/2009/01/15/automatically-increment-wix-installer-product-version/#comment-14930 Thanks for posting this! I was trying to use ifdef $(env.BUILD_NUMBER) [with the parentheses] instead of without. As for incrementing the 3rd of the 4 version numbers, I believe that's because Windows Installer only checks the first three version numbers when doing upgrade checks, even though the rest of Microsoft has standardized on a four-part version string. Thanks for posting this! I was trying to use ifdef $(env.BUILD_NUMBER) [with the parentheses] instead of without.

As for incrementing the 3rd of the 4 version numbers, I believe that’s because Windows Installer only checks the first three version numbers when doing upgrade checks, even though the rest of Microsoft has standardized on a four-part version string.

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