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I want a quick and dirty .msi that will simply overwrite all files in the app directory every time it's run. &nbsp;<br />
Am I right to set <br />
RemovePreviousVersion = False &nbsp;(just overwrite. &nbsp;don't uninstall anything)<br />
DetectNewerInstalledVersio<wbr />n = False &nbsp;<br />
???<br />
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My experience is that each of the deployment project properties are very simple when looked at individually (thus the limited documentation) but become complicated under different deployment/versioning scenarios. &nbsp;For my purpose here I'm not concerned with the version - I just want to overwrite the DLL's every time the .MSI is run.
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I want a quick and dirty .msi that will simply overwrite all files in the app directory every time it's run.  
Am I right to set 
RemovePreviousVersion = False  (just overwrite.  don't uninstall anything)
DetectNewerInstalledVersion = False  
???

My experience is that each of the deployment project properties are very simple when looked at individually (thus the limited documentation) but become complicated under different deployment/versioning scenarios.  For my purpose here I'm not concerned with the version - I just want to overwrite the DLL's every time the .MSI is run.

MSI scenario

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