How to make WiX Toolset (Burn) Bootstrapper recognize an upgrade?

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I'm using the WiX (Burn) Bootstrapper to wrap my MSI installer (so that I can install some prerequisite libraries with it.)

It works fine for installation and uninstallation, but I can't seem to figure out how to implement an upgrade with it? Say, if I had version 1.0.0 installed and now I run it for version 1.0.1.

PS. I made sure that UpgradeCode values in the XML markup for both MSI and bootstrapper are the same. But it didn't help. The bootstrapper still behaves like an upgrade to the next version is just a plain installation.

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The upgraded bootstrapper should behave like a plain installation. If version 1.0.1 was installed successfully, everything is ok.

If you want bootstrapper to detect previous version, you should use custom bootstrapper application and DetectRelatedBundle event.

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