Major Upgrade in WiX installer not working following a UIRef change

Question

I have changed a UIRef tag between versions of my deployment.

from Version 1.0: <UIRef ID="WixUI_FeatureTree" />
to Version 2.0: <UIRef ID="WixUI_Advanced" />

Wix Version 3.6

Now, when I run the Version 2.0 installer, it does not detect the previous version, so instead of uninstalling during the upgrade it installs a new version next to the existing version.

Intermediate versions upgraded fine (1.0->1.1->1.2).

The major changes in 2.0 are:

A new sub-feature under the main
Change to the UIRef from WixUI_FeatureTree, to WixUI_Advanced to allow deployment to select from 'AllUsers' and 'Single User'

Remove Existing Products is defined as:

<InstallExecuteSequence>      
     <RemoveExistingProducts After='InstallInitialize' />

      <Custom Action=...
    ...

My product is defined as:

#UpgradeCode# is consistent between versions
#ProductId# is changed between versions

<Product Id="#ProductId"
  UpgradeCode="#UpgradeCode#"
  Name="!(loc.ApplicationName)"
  Language="1033"
  Codepage="1252"
  Version="2.0.0"
  Manufacturer="!(loc.Manufacturer)">    
     <Package 
          Id="*"
          InstallerVersion="300" 
          InstallPrivileges="elevated"      
          Languages="1033"
          Compressed="yes"
          InstallScope="perMachine"
          Manufacturer="!(loc.Manufacturer)"
          SummaryCodepage="1252"
          Platform="x86"      
          Description="!(loc.ApplicationName)"/>
           <Upgrade Id="#UpgradeCode#">
           <UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect="no" Property="PREVIOUSFOUND"
                           Minimum="1.0.0" IncludeMinimum="yes"
                           Maximum="2.0.0" IncludeMaximum="no"/>
           </Upgrade>

I am wondering if there is something that I can do to force the installer to check the upgrade and perform remove of previous version that is no longer being handled following my changes.

Sheldon Warkentin Sheldon Warkentin · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-02T19:39:10

In the build log I noticed:

MSI (c) (6C:C4) [12:04:44:624]: FindRelatedProducts: current install is per-user. Related install for product '{PRODUCT-GUID }' is per-machine. Skipping... Action ended 12:04:44: FindRelatedProducts. Return value 1.

I had removed:

 <Product ... InstallScope="perMachine" ... />

when upgrading versions.

I did not realize that upgrade matching included the InstallScope Property of Product.

I can still install per-user using <UIRef Id="WixUI_Advanced" />, so this property does not seem to affect the selection of PerMachine or PerUser, so I have put it back in. Upgrade now works again.

Major Upgrade in WiX installer not working following a UIRef change

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