Microsoft Windows Intaller and Delete Files

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Hello everybody,

I'm working on a applciation wrote in C# with .net 2.0 with Microsoft Visaul Studio 2005.
I generate a setup project for installing my application with some text files.
These files can be deleted by the applcation.
When one of this file is deleted, in the next restart, Microsoft Windows Intaller start and reinstall the deleted file.

If it's possible, how can I disable this automatic reinstall ?

Thanks for your help.

Posted 27-May-11 7:05am

clemhindie

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Kim Togo · Answer 1 · 2011-05-27T07:35:00

Solution 1

Set Permanent[^] to true for files that has to manually be deleted.

Posted 27-May-11 7:35am

Kim Togo

clemhindie · Answer 2 · 2011-05-29T05:07:00

Solution 2

Hi Kim,

thank for your help but I set Permanent to true. But Microsoft installer start and re-install my files.

Posted 29-May-11 5:07am

clemhindie