Sounds like you want a few RegistrySearch elements. After a quick search of Gábor's tutorial I found this if you want an example: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson1.php#1.5
Rob bob private wrote: > Hi, > > I hope someone is going to be able to offer some advice on this issue as > I seem to have hit a dead stop! > > I am new to WiX, so hopefully I am not missing any fundamental steps > here. I am creating an installer for a web service. This web service > needs to go through all of the testing phases, and then into a live > environment. Because of the different environments the application will > be used in, a new dialogue window was added to the UI to capture the > environment specific information whilst installing. This information is > stored into the registry at the time of install like so: > > <Component Id="WriteRegKeys" Guid="2BF7E3E3-D255-4b1f-BB5D-A69D652F4FE7"> > <RegistryValue Id="REGINSTALLDIR" Root="HKLM" > Key="Software\test\testapp" Name="InstallDir" Action="write" > Type="string" Value="[INSTALLDIR]" /> > <RegistryValue Id="REGLOGSINSTALLDIR" Root="HKLM" > Key="Software\test\testapp" Name="TraceLogsInstallDir" Action="write" > Type="string" Value="[INSTALLDIR]TraceLogs\" /> > <RegistryValue Id="REGSERVERIP" Root="HKLM" Key="Software\test\testapp" > Name="ServerIP" Action="write" Type="string" Value="[SERVER_IP]" /> > <RegistryValue Id="REGSERVERPORT" Root="HKLM" > Key="Software\test\testapp" Name="ServerPort" Action="write" > Type="string" Value="[SERVER_PORT]" /> > <RegistryValue Id="REGWEBSITELOC" Root="HKLM" > Key="Software\test\testapp" Name="WebSiteLocation" Action="write" > Type="string" Value="[WEBSITE_LOCATION]" /> > </Component> > > All of this works fine. I can see all of this information being written > to the registry, and when viewing the website in IIS, everything has > been set up correctly. > > Now for the problem, Uninstalling. When I try to uninstall the > application by running the MSI and selecting Remove, it reaches the > status of "Committing IIS Metabase Transaction", and then displays a > msgbox informing me that it "Failed to read IIsWebSite table > (-2147023728 )". After investigating for a while, it seems that this > error appears to be happening because of the none-default installation > information of the website. If I try to uninstall the application using > the command line and passing it some parameters like so: > > C:\>msiexec.exe /x Installer.msi > INSTALLDIR="F:\Home\WebsiteHome\IIS\testapp" WEBSITE_LOCATION="test Web > Site" SERVER_PORT="20200" SERVER_IP="*" > > The application uninstalls fine. I read somewhere on someone's blog, > that creating a shortcut allows you to pass arguments, so I thought this > might be a good way of fixing my problem, as this would allow me to > simulate the command line version of the uninstall. So I created this: > > <Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder"> > <Directory Id="ShortcutFolder" Name="Web Service"> > <Component Id="UninstallShortcutComponent" > Guid="0AB3DEEB-81F0-460c-9206-94EF1AD583E5"> > <RegistryKey Root="HKCU" Key="Software\test\Uninstall"> > <RegistryValue Value="test Uninstaller" Type="string" KeyPath="yes" /> > </RegistryKey> > <Shortcut Id="UninstallProduct" Name="Uninstall test" > Target="[System64Folder]msiexec.exe" Arguments="/x [ProductCode] > INSTALLDIR=[REGINSTALLDIR] WEBSITE_LOCATION=[REGWEBSITELOC] > SERVER_PORT=[REGSERVERPORT] SERVER_IP=[REGSERVERIP]" > Directory="ShortcutFolder" Description="Uninstall JWEmail" /> > <RemoveFolder Id="RemoveShorcutFolder" On="uninstall" /> > </Component> > </Directory> > </Directory> > > However, this fails with "Failed to read IIsWebSite table. > (-2147024883)". I believe the answer to this issue now is that when the > application comes to uninstall, it does not know what the constants > [REGINSTALLDIR] [REGWEBSITELOC] [REGSERVERPORT] [REGSERVERIP] are, as > these were created at install time and written to the registry. > > So my question is then, how, at uninstall time, can I read the registry > and re-populate these constants with the values from the registry? Is > this even the right way of doing this? > > Sorry about the long winded explanation, but I thought it better to try > and explain the situation as best as I could before creating the post. > > Any help / advice on this would be great!! > > Cheers > > Bob > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. 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