[WiX-users] WIX 3.5 AppPool is not uninstalled on Windows 7

[Paul R. <PRe...@pl...>]

Hi

On my dev box (win7 64bit), I'm finding that when I uninstall my web application, everything gets properly removed EXCEPT the AppPool.

I found a related thread: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Problem-with-Application-pools-in-IIS-on-Windows-7-2008-td5438654.html

But no answer was contained there, so I'm hoping for some pointers?!

Here's the structure:


    <Directory Id='TARGETDIR' Name='SourceDir'>
      <Directory Id="IISMain" Name='inetpub'>
        <Directory Id="WWWMain" Name='wwwroot' ComponentGuidGenerationSeed='CA19CA4A-C69B-4CDB-BCBD-6C3C5E9A3EDC'>
          <Directory Id='INSTALLLOCATION' Name='!(loc.ProductName)'>

            <!-- The component to define the Virtual Directory.-->
            <Component Id="WebVirtualDirComponent" Guid="A720C1C9-1D8D-4941-976D-FB1C5C9EF8BB">

              <!-- Define App Pool - identity if not set defaults to: ApplicationPoolIdentity -->
              <iis:WebAppPool Id="AppPool" Name="[VD][WEBSITE_ID]" ManagedRuntimeVersion="v4.0" IdleTimeout="0" RecycleMinutes="0" ManagedPipelineMode="integrated">
              </iis:WebAppPool>

              <iis:WebVirtualDir Id="VDir" Alias="[VD]" Directory="INSTALLLOCATION" WebSite="SelectedWebSite">
                <iis:WebApplication Id="YearViewApplication" WebAppPool="AppPool" Name="[VD][WEBSITE_ID]" />
                <iis:WebDirProperties Id="MyWebSite_Properties" AnonymousAccess="yes" WindowsAuthentication="no" DefaultDocuments="Default.aspx" />
              </iis:WebVirtualDir>


As stated before, the VD gets removed fine...so this proves (?!) that [VD][WEBSITE_ID] are valid...

I'm persisting the variables to the registry (and can see them there!) and reading from at startup.

The Feature is defined at:

    <Feature Id="ProductFeature" Title="!(loc.ProductName)" Level="1">
      <ComponentRef Id='WebVirtualDirComponent' />
                     <ComponentGroupRef Id="Product.Generated" />
      <ComponentRef Id="PersistWebSiteValues" />
              </Feature>

I'm clearly missing something really simple/obvious?!
TIA
Paul.