Re: [WiX-users] Passing data into and out of a Custom Action

Blair, Your answer was what i was looking for. I did not realize (and had not read anywhere) than you can treat the session object like a key/value object to get to the session properties. ie: string MyString = session["MYPROPERTY"]; session["MYOTHERPROP"] = "SomeValue"; That was what i was look

Re: [WiX-users] Passing data into and out of a Custom Action

Use session Properties. They are populated from the Property table only at the beginning of each sequence (before your immediate CA runs) and can be read and written by immediate CAs. The "[PropertyName]" syntax used in formatted fields of the database (such as some of the XmlConfig attributes and

Re: [WiX-users] Passing data into and out of a Custom Action

Regarding properties from the UI not retaining their values into the execute sequence, look into 'SecureCustomProperties', ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371571(VS.85).aspx -Original Message- From: David Drake (Excell Data Corporation) [mailto:a-ddr...@microsoft.com] S