Setup Program won't uninstall previous version with visual studio 03

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I'm having a problem with a project we're working on with Visual Studio 03.
It appears to ignore the setting in the properties of the setup project
'RemovePreviousVersions' and requires the user to uninstall the previous
version with add/remove programs before it will install.

It's a fairly large program with multiple dlls and some resources, we are
developing an in house application so because of this, someone has to go
around and uninstall the previous version on all users computers then
install the new version which is a PITA. I'd like to get our update process
automated so we can install upgrades with group policies but until we get
past this problem we're stuck doing it manually. I'm really glad we only
have about 30 users instead of 300.

One thing I've noticed is that if I right click the install project from
within Visual Studio and select 'install', it will overwrite the previous
version. But on the same machine, if I right click the MSI or launch the
setup.exe it will require the previous version to be uninstalled. On users
computers it always requires the uninstall.

We're using Visual Studio 03, developer machines are XP and we're using
Visual Source Safe. The application is a SQL Server client app written in
Visual Basic. Clients are W2K and the Server is also W2K.

The last thing I tried was setting 'RemovePreviousVersions' to false, then
built it, then tried installing it and it acted exactly the same - it would
overwrite if installed from within the IDE but not if ran from the MSI or
EXE. I've dug through the documentation, MS's web site and Googled over and
over but I'm having no luck, any help is welcome at this point.

Thanks in advance;

David Craig.


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