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This tip applies to Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Installer (Setup) Projects.  They’re used to create *.msi installers for deploying applications. I was having some weird issues with my setup project.  When I tested the installer against the previous version of the installer, it would run fine without reporting any errors, but when I launched my application, the changes I made weren’t showing up.  Odd, I thought.  I figured the installer wasn’t working properly.  What I was expecting was an uninstall to show up before the install ran.  This is actually the behavior in Visual Studio 2005...