The MSP is for Office/Word and not your add-in, correct?
If so, you will need to bootstrap the MSP from outside of your MSI (there
aren't many good ways to do so from within your MSI). Most on this list would
likely suggest using Burn (now part of WiX).
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:10:46 +0200
> From: cetvrtadimenz...@gmail.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding installed file location into registry -
> VS2010 developed Word plugin
>
> Yeeah. The more I find out about Word adin deployment the more I get
> pissed. For example in order to install an addin for all users in Office
> 2007 you need to install a hotfix. A well known hotfix that dates to before
> Office SP1 but it's still not included in official patches, not even in
> SP3. But curiously if I'm installing for a single user the pattern:
> file:///C:\Program Files\ . . . works fine.
> The only thing I would ask of you is do you know of any handy resource that
> could teach an MSI newbie how to include msp installer of a patch in his
> msi installer.
>
>
> 2013/9/17 Phil Wilson <phildgwil...@gmail.com>
>
> > I don't know of anything built-in. You'd need code - in managed code you
> > use the UriBuilder class.
> >
> > Phil Wilson
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:47 PM, 4th Dimension
> > <cetvrtadimenz...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > I need to add the location of a certain file into the registry as the
> > part
> > > of the instalation of a Word add in. Now I am aware that I can use
> > > [TARGETDIR] to get the install location. But [TARGETDIR] outputs the
> > > address as C:\Program Files\AddinFolder, while I need the address to use
> > > the forward slashes since full address needs to look like this:
> > > file:///C:/Program Files/AddinFolder/Addin.vsto|vstolocal
> > >
> > > So is there a way to convert TARGETDIR's bacwardslashes into forward
> > ones?
> > >
> > >
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