Keep in mind it's better to avoid XmlFile / XmlConfig and just rely on standard IIS custom action functionality, if possible. I don't know enough about your particular scenario to know if it's possible in this case, but if you can throw a [ProgramFilesFolder] into your IIS authoring somewhere instead of relying on Xml modification of web.config, you'll be better off.
I know in some cases modifying web.config with XmlFile / XmlConfig Vista will result in slightly unexpected behavior, because the IIS custom action doesn't flush data to disk in 3.0 (so XmlFile / XmlConfig would be operating on the XML file before it was modified by the IIS custom action, even though the IIS custom action was earlier in the sequence). A flush operation was added to the custom action to fix this scenario in 3.5, but 3.5 is still early on and it's hard to recommend it at this point in time. Thanks, Mike Carlson -----Original Message----- From: Don Benson [mailto:dbenso...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 11:53 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if machine's 64bit or 32bit Windows Installer automatically handles translating the ProgramFilesFolder property for 32-bit vs. 64-bit platforms. Are you using an XMLFile element to set the web.config value? Use the [ProgramFilesFolder] property within the XMLFile element, and you should get what you want. - Don Benson - Tribute Inc. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Erica Chang (PROJECT) <eri...@microsoft.com > wrote: > Hi, > I have a field in web.config that needs environment variable of > %ProgramFiles% or %ProgramFiles(x86)% depending on if the machine installing > is 64 bit or 32 bit. > > Is there a way to substitute the values during install time by detecting > this and setting the appropriate values? > > Thanks so much in advance. > > Regards, > Erica > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
