Is there a way to remove a redundant ".\" from a directory name which is read
from the registry.
Here's the detail:- I need to find the VC projects directory in Visual Studio
2005.
I look in the registry key as follows:
<Property Id="VS2005_VCPROJECTS_DIR">
<RegistrySearch Id="SearchForVCProjectsDir" Root="HKLM"
Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Projects\{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}"
Name="ProjectTemplatesDir" Type="directory"/>
</Property>
Unfortuately, the path in the registry has a redundant ".\" as follows:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\.\VCProjects
When I run the search, VS2005_VCPROJECTS_DIR is set to "C:\" and the following
error is written to the log:
AppSearch: Property: VS2005_VCPROJECTS_DIR, Signature:
SearchForVCProjectsDir
Info 1324. The folder path '.' contains an invalid character.
If I change RegistrySearch/@Type to "raw", then I correctly get in the log:
VS2005_VCPROJECTS_DIR = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\VC\.\VCProjects
However, the following lines blow up instead:
<DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
<Directory Id="VS2005_VCPROJECTS_DIR" Name=".">
</Directory>
</DirectoryRef>
and this error message comes up: "The error "The folder path '.' contains an
invalid character".
Is there some way to transform "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\VC\.\VCProjects" to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\VC\VCProjects" before it gets assigned to the Dircetory element?
I'm using wix-3.0.2420.0. I hope someone can help on this. I suspect there is a
simple solution which more learned MSI users will know.
Thanks,
Bruce
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