Re: [WiX-users] Write STX (Start of Text / ASCII 2) to a registry string

[robert_h_yang]

Have a look at Type="binary" (REG_BINARY), eg.

        <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="Software\SomeKey" Name="SomeValue" 
           Value="02000000" Type="binary" Action="write" />

-Rob


Keith Moore wrote
> 
> Is there a way to write a the STX character to the registry?  I am using
> Wix 3.5.
> 
> I have the registry import file below:
> -----------------------------------------
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
> 
>  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SomeKey]
> "SomeValue"=hex(1):02,00,00,00
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> And I tried to use heat to harvest from it but I get the error "heat.exe :
> error HEAT0001 : Unsupport registry value "SomeValue"=hex(1):02,00,00,00
> at line 4"
> 
> I've also tried using &#2; in the wxs file but that gives me an XML
> parsing error " Character ' ', hexadecimal value 0x2 is illegal in XML
> documents"
> 
> Any ideas how I could write this value, I would also like to write &#10;
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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