如何强制部署项目在安装新版本期间更新文件？

Question

I have a Deployment Project for my VS2008 C# application. When installing a new version of my application I want to make sure that files are updated with the files contained in the installer.

我希望我的安装程序自动删除已安装应用程序的所有旧版本。为此，我遵循以下程序（也在此描述）：

1. 将RemovePreviousVersions 设置为True
2. Set DetectNewerInstalledVersion to True
3. Increment the Version of the installer
4. Choose Yes to change the ProductCode

For the assemblies I make sure the AssemblyVersion is set to a higher version:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]

Everything is working as intended except for my configuration files (xml files). Since I cannot find a way to "version" these files I cannot make sure that the files are updated if they have been modified on the target machine.

Is there any way to do this and how?

UPDATE: I have tried the approach/solution/workaround found here

1. Include the file directly in a project with the following properties: "Build Action -> Content file" and "Copy to Output Directory -> Copy always"
2. Then add it to the deployment project via Project Output->Database->Content Files

Unfortunately it did not make any difference. The behavior is exactly the same.

Answer 1

将以下属性添加到 MSI 的属性表中：属性 REINSTALLMODE 和值 amus

注意：这将导致 MSI 中的所有文件（版本化和非版本化）覆盖系统上的文件。

Answer 2

如果您愿意使用 Orca（可能还有另一种方法可以执行此方法，但这是我所知道的唯一一种），您也许可以设置 RemoveFile 指令。

请参阅此处典型的轻量级 MSDN 文档——可能是一个起点。 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371201.aspx

或者，您始终可以创建一个非常简单的引导程序可执行文件，只需调用“msiexec /i REINSTALLMODE=oums”（或任何需要的命令行开关）。如果你愿意的话，可以将其命名为 setup.exe...

从长远来看，更好的选择可能是切换到 InstallShield 或类似的版本 - VS2010 包含 IS 的轻型版本，我相信他们正在放弃 vdproj 项目。