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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Daniel
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:13 PM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] Setting Uninstall/.../InstallLocation in registry
>
> I'm sure this has been asked before, but as there doesn't seem to be a
> workable search mechanism for the archives (that I could find!), I'll
> ask at the risk of being redundant...
>
> I have a WIX project, originally created by running dark.exe against
an
> MSI produced by a VS deployment project. One of the many things I'm
> trying to accomplish in the conversion to WIX is to address several
> points that were raised during Vista logo compliance testing.
>
> One of those compliance issues is that the MSI created by the
> deployment
> projects fails to set the InstallLocation value in the
> HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Uninstall/{productID}
> registry key. Unsurprisingly, the MSI generated from the dark-created
> WIX file also fails to set that value.
>
> So what's the recommended way of getting this key set? This is
> something that I would have expected to be completely automatic, but
> apparently my expectations are out of whack with reality.
>
> All pointers appreciated!
>
Here's what we did to solve this problem:
<CustomAction
Id="SAVETARGETDIR"
Property="ARPINSTALLLOCATION"
Value="[TARGETDIR]" />
and then sequence it after InstallValidate
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