Unfortunately, by design. That's the Windows Installer behavior for RegSearch.
The MSI SDK will have more details if you desire.
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Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 7:43 AM
To: Bob Arnson
Cc: Bei Liu (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] A bug?-get REG_SZ when using type="integer"
I'm seeing the same behaviour.
In my component I have the following lines:
<RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="Software\MyCompany\MyProduct" Name="Port"
Value="[PORTVALUE]" Type="integer" />
<Property Id="PORTVALUE" Value="1234">
<RegistrySearch Id="RegPortValue" Root="HKLM"
Key="Software\MyCompany\MyProduct" Name="Port" Type="raw"></RegistrySearch>
</Property>
In the resulting package, the relevant line in the Property table is:
Property = PORTVALUE, Value="1234"
In the Registry table, Value = #[PORTVALUE].
When I run this on a fresh install, it correctly writes a DWORD with value 1234.
When in maintenance/upgrade, it writes a string with value #1234.
As far as I can tell, the value being retrieved from AppSearch is "#1234".. but
then when it tries to write it to the registry, the registry value resolves to
##1234 which is a REG_SZ.
Does anyone know what I should be doing in this case? Or does no one beside me
( and the original poster, apparently) try to preserve DWORD registry values?
Thanks,
:D
On 5/15/07, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Bei Liu (Volt) wrote:
When use the <RegistryValue>, set the Type="integer",
result: REG_SZ,
expect: REG_DWORD
Is this bug?
Unlikely but it's impossible to say without more details. Can you show a
minimal example that repro's the problem?
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