WiX - Silent Installation fails to execute custom action

Question

Our installer (Let us say 'X') has fllowing custom action which will uninstall some other product (Let us say Y) after the installation of X is completed

CustomAction Id="RemoveProductY" ExeCommand=" msiexec /quiet /x [PRODUCTCODEOFPRODY] " Directory="TARGETDIR" Return="asyncNoWait" Impersonate="no" Execute ="commit"

It work perfectly when I install it normally but fails only when I install it silently.

Works : msiexec /i X.msi

Fails : msiexec /qn /i X.msi

Please help me with this

Answer 1

There is a more simple way to uninstall other products during installing.

Use Upgrade table, but there you specify Upgrade Code instead of Product Code.

Eg

<Upgrade Id="{7F034BD8-2C57-437A-B528-F2554A095CF4}">
  <UpgradeVersion Property="X_PRODUCT_INSTALLED" Maximum="2.0.0" IncludeMaximum="yes" />
</Upgrade>

The product with this upgrade code and version <= 2.0.0 will be uninstalled during installation of your one.