First guess is you have = and/or ; inside of your INI file contents. If you are using DTF/Managed CA, I could see this potentially causing issues. You might want to try manually parsing the Session [CustomActionData.PropertyName] and see if you have better luck.
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Miller [mailto:nmil...@livetechnology.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:29 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Quick Question Well, the value I am trying to pass is the contents of an INI file, so I doubt it's running out of memory. There must be something else going on... -----Original Message----- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:26 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Quick Question It's limited by memory, but when I exceeded it, I always got a failure (usually when trying to retrieve the value in my deferred CA). > From: nmil...@livetechnology.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:43:48 +0000 > Subject: [WiX-users] Quick Question > > Hi All, > > I am passing some properties to a custom action, and one of the values being > passed is quite large, and never seems to make it to the CA. I am wondering > what is the maximum size of a string that can be passed via CustomActionData? > > Thanks, > Nick > Nicholas Miller (Network Administrator) LiveTechnology Holdings, Inc. > LiveTechnology Park: 16 Sterling Lake Rd, Tuxedo Park, NY 10987 > Phone: 845.351.5100 Direct: 845.535.6205 Fax: 845.351.5102 > Email: nmil...@livetechnology.com<mailto:nmil...@livetechnology.com> > Website: www.LiveTechnology.com<http://www.livetechnology.com/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
