Question

I am writing an installer for my web app and I struggle with the uninstaller part. Despite the fact that I created a custom action on Uninstall in my Application Setup Project, the InstallerClass is set to true, the method:

public override void Uninstall(IDictionary savedState)
    {
        //MessageBox.Show("Attach debugger!", "Viper.Setup");
        Cleanup();
        base.Uninstall(savedState);
    }

on the installer class doesn’t seem to be called. Any ideas what could be the reason?

EDIT: I also noticed that it not only doesn’t run the Installer, but also doesn’t delete my main dll file. To make it worse, when I install a new version after uninstalling the previous one, this dll is still the old one (even though installation and uninstallation were successful)

Answer 1

I stopped using these rubbish msi’s and created a zip + cmd script instead. Strongly recommended, took me 10 times less to set up and actually works.