Re: [WiX-users] custom action to modify a file

http://msiext.codeplex.com can treat your file as a template. Cheers -dB. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -Original Message- From: Slide [mailto:slide.o@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:15 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-us

Re: [WiX-users] custom action to modify a file

Hi, I've been looking for the same thing, unfortunately even reading from a plain text file doesn't appear possible - INI and XML files are the only types of files that you can read/write with standard MSI and WiX tools. The solution instead was to modify the application to read/write from the re

Re: [WiX-users] custom action to modify a file

Because text files are "free-form" you either need to specify the exact text format (.INI, or .XML, or whatever) the text file is in OR you need something like a SED editor wrapped into a custom action. Having said that, I don't happen to know of any SED C/As. However, I'm sure someone would be wi