Is it possible to read File which is in MSI Database?
Is it possible to extract one file at the start of installation (meaning
while showing first or second screen)?
your inputs will appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Lingappa
Lingappa wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to read the configuration information from input xml config file
> and display it to the user. Then user can modify the values and those
> values will be updated to web.config after users modification. I have
> written the custom action in VBScript to read the input xml config file
> (/using msxml2.DOMDocument).
>
> Problem is WIX expects the input xml path to be physical path(I mean it
> reads the default path as \System32 folder). Meaning I will have to ship
> the input xml config file separatly with the MSI. I would like to know how
> do i embed this input xml file in the MSI, so that i can read this file
> using VBScript.
>
> I think is it possible to extract that file from MSI database and copy to
> the temporary location before reading the file.
>
> Thanking you in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Lingappa
>
>
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