Hi, Have you thought about writing the original properties to a registry entry or a file somewhere during install, then restore those same entries during uninstall? Adobe do this with a number of their products, creating a registry tree with all values that were changed during install so they can be restored on uninstall.
Sascha On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Thorsten Tarrach<thorsten.tarr...@troxo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > to make the uninstall as perfect as possible I would like to save some > information for the uninstaller custom action. > > Say if my installer custom action changes a setting then I would like the > uninstaller to undo that. The problem I face at the moment is that I can > only revert the setting to its default. If some user already set the setting > to a different value I cannot revert to that value. > > I know that it can be done: The SQL extension for example can drop the table > on uninstall, so it must remember the sql connection parameters. But how is > that done? > > Thanks, > Thorsten > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
