What is the proper way to use Remove Assemblies?

[Chris Miller]

If at uninstall time I want to remove any unpinned assemblies that my installer placed in the GAC, what is the preferred means? Do I just add the command immediately after "Apply Uninstall", or should I check the value of the SUCCESS variable before running the command?

Should I do this

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  Apply Uninstall (get result into variable SUCCESS)
  if Variable SUCCESS not Equals ERROR
    if Variable SUCCESS not Equals CANCEL
      Remove Unpinned Assemblies
    end
  end

or is this enough?

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  Apply Uninstall (get result into variable SUCCESS)
  Remove Unpinned Assemblies

[Alex_Ronquillo]

Chris,

I would do it the first way, that way you will make sure the user did not cancel the uninstallation, and that there wasn't any error in the process.