[ProgramFilesFolder] will be automatically set to the appropriate folder. Windows Installer takes care of this property automatically.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Erica Chang (PROJECT) <eri...@microsoft.com > wrote: > What we are doing is installing sample sites that needs the location of the > install as environment variable in web.config to access a file in the > appsettings section. > > However, because our SDK only builds in 32bit, the web.config needs a file > location but I need to detect whether to use %programfiles% or > %programfiles(x86)% in web.config and I was hoping that during install, we > can write some custom action to substitute appropriately. Will > ProgramFilesFolder work appropriately? > > Thanks for all the responses so far. > > Thanks, > Erica > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Carlson (DEV DIV) [mailto:mica...@microsoft.com] > Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:06 PM > 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 > > 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. 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