Jacques Eloff

/backport to main

I pinged Arcade folks to find out when we can merge changes in the release branches, but they haven't responded. @mmitche are we free to merge these whenever?

I double checked and we don't turn of the files-in-use dialog. From the logs though it appears Restart Manager is killing the application. Excerpt below is from the Desktop Runtime...

If I disable Restart Manager by changing the OS policies, I can force the OS to use FilesInUse , and then I see this. 

I should also call out that IF you are being patched by an external process (Automatic Updates/WSUS/etc.), the installer will always run quietly and default to stopping applications that are...

You then manually download and install a new SDK? Restart Manager is the preferred mechanism starting in Vista, especially for UI based applications. While it might be possible to try...

I dug into this a bit further. On Win7 SP1, everything behaves as expected. I created a WPF/WinForms app that registered with Restart Manager. During a full UI based upgrade,...

@vitek-karas the path entry is definitely wrong.

Yeah, move it to installer for now. I suspect though that this is coming from Arcade since there's some built-in templates/tasks that the runtime uses for generating its installers, but...

Hi Heath So the idea is to just run the CA during InstallExecute/InstallFinalize and condition it on `Remove=ALL`. The CA can read the provider key from the WixDependencyProvider table to...