Setup and Deployment with database

Question

Hi all ,

As mentioned in the title , I have problem with setup & deployment. After I installed application I made some changes , now I want to apply the new changed on the installed version of my application. I tried to modify the setup project with change the version of setup which will cause a product key to change but when I installed the new setup application nothing changed.

 - How can I upgrade my application with new changes.

 - If there is database and I added new tables how can I install new database without effect the old data

Best Regards

Swalf

Answer 1

Hi Swalf,

Welcome to MSDN Forum.

From your description, I ‘d like to move this post to  the most related forum for better support.

There are more  experts in this aspect and you may have more luck getting answers.

Thanks for your understanding.

Regards,

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Lisa Zhu [MSFT]
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Answer 2

Thanks for your help , I hope I will get answer for me and for other people have same question.

Best Regards

Sawlf

Answer 3

Hi Sawlf,

Have you updated the AssemblyFileVersion in the AssemblyInfo file? Try to increase the version number to see whether your application updates.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/556041/en-us

If you want to preserve old database, you can try this thread editing File using Orca.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/winformssetup/thread/676759A2-9625-435E-BE05-EFA6FCCD5297 

Best regards,

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