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    <p>I have a Deployment Project for my VS2008 C# application. When installing a new version of my application I want to make sure that files are updated with the files contained in the installer.</p> <p>I want my installer to automatically remove any old version of the installed application. To do that I follow this procedure (also described <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3024753/installing-a-new-version-of-a-deployment-project-over-old-version">here</a>):</p> <ol> <li>Set RemovePreviousVersions to True</li> <li>Set DetectNewerInstalledVersion to True</li> <li>Increment the Version of the installer</li> <li>Choose Yes to change the ProductCode</li> </ol> <p>For the assemblies I make sure the AssemblyVersion is set to a higher version:</p> <pre><code>[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")] </code></pre> <p>Everything is working as intended except for my configuration files (xml files). Since I cannot find a way to "version" these files I cannot make sure that the files are updated if they have been modified on the target machine.</p> <p>Is there any way to do this and how?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> I have tried the approach/solution/workaround found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1682090/net-setup-project-force-new-file-replacement-on-reinstall">here</a></p> <ol> <li>Include the file directly in a project with the following properties: "Build Action -> Content file" and "Copy to Output Directory -> Copy always"</li> <li>Then add it to the deployment project via Project Output->Database->Content Files</li> </ol> <p>Unfortunately it did not make any difference. The behavior is exactly the same.</p>
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    1. COYou say you "cannot find a way to "version" these files", but are you certain they are not being overwritten correctly on (re)installation?
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    2. COYes, I am sure of that. I can see that the content of the files is not updated and the Date Modified of the xml files never changes. When doing a repair using the msiexec with the /fa switch the files are correctly updated.
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