question about the guid's

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There are 2 guids for the install... the productguid and the upgradeguid.
However, I also have a guid in each of my releases.. I have the normal
install... but my releases are a cd demo and a net demo. Should I just make
them all the same guid so any updates over the net will update whatever
they've installed?

Also, about version numbers. I've changed my versions to 8.4.1, 8.4.2 etc...
however, when I get to 8.4.10 or 8.4.11, are they considered higher.. in
other words is 8.4.11 higher than 8.4.9... or did I screw up and should have
made my versions 8.4.0001, 8.4.0002, etc.?

Thank you,

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Ray Rippey
VMT Software - http://www.vmtsoft.com

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Hi Ray,

> There are 2 guids for the install... the productguid and the upgradeguid.

The product GUID must be the same for the main install and the web update.
I have to admit that I'm not sure what the difference is between the Product
GUID and the Upgrade GUID...

> Also, about version numbers. I've changed my versions to 8.4.1, 8.4.2 etc...
> however, when I get to 8.4.10 or 8.4.11, are they considered higher.. in
> other words is 8.4.11 higher than 8.4.9... or did I screw up and should have
> made my versions 8.4.0001, 8.4.0002, etc.?

The versions numbers are compared as numbers within each section. 8.4.1 is
lower than 8.4.2 and 8.4.10 is higher than 8.4.9. 8.4.11 is higher than
8.4.10 and 8.40.10 is higher than 8.4.10 (comparing second section) and
9.0.0 is higher than 8.99.99 etc.

I ran into this when I changed my version numbers from x.x.xx.build to
x.x.build and I went from something like 1.50.10.100 to 1.5.200 which was
then lower than the previous version and the webupdate didn't pick it up.

Best regards,

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Arnór Baldvinsson - Icetips Creative, Inc.
Port Angeles, Washington
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