Dears,
I hope you are fine and doing well.
Thanks for the answers. They really taught me things.
It seems that I can use these when there is no Dialogs. I mean if I write an
installer to copy some files with no dialog shown to user, this works.
But when I put this code into the WiXUI library to use, everything goes
wrong. I mean, I can not assign the Value I get from the registry to the
INSTALLDIR which is used in the WiXUI.InstallDir. Is it possible to use this
option with WiXUI.InstallDir at all? Do I need to set another thing?
(In fact, there will be a problem when we want to show the value to the user
to let him change or accept.)
This will be the error message:
<The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package.
This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2343.>
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Hi,
Read a registry value and assign to a property like so
<Property Id='VS2008'>
<RegistrySearch Id='VisualStudio2008'
Root='HKLM'
Key='SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0'
Name='InstallDir'
Type='raw' />
</Property>
Then you will start your directory structure like so
<Directory Id='VS2008' Name='.'>
<!-- Your directories and components here -->
</Directory>
Note DirectoryID is the same as the property id.o
Regards
Stephen
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem Reading Registry
>
> Please refer to http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson1.php, under
"1.5
> Where to Install?". It contains a really simple and exhaustive
> explanation about this issue.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Boris
>
Original Messages:
> Riyaz Mogharabin wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I have to read a registry value from a specific key ( lets say
> > HKLM\Software\Company\ ) and this value contains the path to the
> location
> > where we need to install the software (so the format of the value
>> Will be something like "C:\Company\HomeDir\" ).
> >
> > How can I get this value by use of <RegistrySearch> Element? How can I
> > assign this value to the Directory where I want to install files in?
> >
> > <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir" >
> > <Directory Id="CompanyDIR" Name="Company" >
> > <Component Id="Components" Guid="<Sample-GUID>" >
> > <File Id='file01' Name='SampleFile' />
> > </Component>
> > </Directory>
> > </Directory>
> >
> > This means, the Value must be divided into the directory names, and
> > be used in the <Directory> names. But how can I get this value by
> <RegistrySearch>
> > Element, and how can I divide it? Can anybody give me a sample code?
> >
> > Also I must add that I use "wix-2.0.5805.0" as the stable version.
> >
> > Thank you very much,
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