Forcing an upgrade of a file that is modified during its initial installation

Question

I\'m working on the upgrade feature for my WiX-based installer.

As part of the instalation, we are installing a web.config file and then using a custom action to upd

Answer 1

Don't use a custom action to update your config file is the other obvious idea. Instead get WIX to do the update via the XML extensions. E.g.

This is using a [SQLSERVERANDINSTANCE] variable which needs to be setup before hand.