John Nannenga wrote:
> Quick question...should this work after the product is installed i.e., in
> maintenance mode or even in a patch?
>
Yes. It's required, because during maintenance, you'll likely need to
write the same rows to get MSI to repair or remove them.
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From: Bob Arnson [...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:42 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to copy a directory(folder) recursively
Brian Young
Brian Young wrote:
> It's sad to learn MS doesn't support it. I'll see if I could use a
> CustomAction and a DLL to do the work.
>
If the list of directories is known, you don't need to do that. If it's
not, you can write a custom action to write rows to the MoveFile table
to do the copying.
Thanks Bob for your reply. I appreciate it.
It's sad to learn MS doesn't support it. I'll see if I could use a CustomAction
and a DLL to do the work.
Thanks again.
/Brian
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Brian Young wrote:
> We need to copy a directory recursively.
>
MSI doesn't support that. You can do wildcards but not ad-hoc
subdirectories.
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We're using WiX version 3.0.4805.0.
We need to copy a directory recursively.
Say, there are some user data files saved in the User's 'AppDataFolder', for
example, something like "C:\Documents and Settings\user_login\Application
Data\CompanyName\ProductNameA". Now we need to change our proudct
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