I have a situation where I need to launch an exe before uninstall, but only if the uninstall is NOT the result of an upgrade to a newer version.
What's the best way to determine this? In installshield, I would check the UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE var, is there an equivalent in InstallAware?
How to tell if uninstall is result of upgrade?
When InstallAware automatically uninstalls, it undoes every Windows Installer action that was carried out as part of your installation. These are easy to identify in your setup script - they are displayed in purple color with default syntax highlighting.
Run Program is not one of those commands, so it will not execute - your issue is automatically solved. If you had the opposite situation - wherein you needed the custom commands to execute - that is also easy to achieve by silently running the uninstall program from the command line (instead of using the (Un)Install MSI Setup plug-in, which is the default behavior for auto-upgrades).
Run Program is not one of those commands, so it will not execute - your issue is automatically solved. If you had the opposite situation - wherein you needed the custom commands to execute - that is also easy to achieve by silently running the uninstall program from the command line (instead of using the (Un)Install MSI Setup plug-in, which is the default behavior for auto-upgrades).