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Pete Griffint
Howdy,
I'm finding the Windows Installer documentation a bit baffling, so here are a
couple of questions.
(1) I want to have a "Path" key in my app's settings in the registry
which is set at install time with the path to which my app is installed.
I reckon I should be able to do this by the ordinary registry editor in
a deployment project in VS, by creating a string value and setting it to
some Windows Installer variable - anyone know which one?
(2) My app comes with data sets A,B. I want people to be able to download other
datasets C,D,... if they wish. What's the right way to set this up, so that
* C,D are installed alone without the main program, but the install program
verifies that the main app is installed before installing them
* if the user uninstalls the main app, then additional datasets C,D,... are
also removed.
Thanks all!
Pete
I'm finding the Windows Installer documentation a bit baffling, so here are a
couple of questions.
(1) I want to have a "Path" key in my app's settings in the registry
which is set at install time with the path to which my app is installed.
I reckon I should be able to do this by the ordinary registry editor in
a deployment project in VS, by creating a string value and setting it to
some Windows Installer variable - anyone know which one?
(2) My app comes with data sets A,B. I want people to be able to download other
datasets C,D,... if they wish. What's the right way to set this up, so that
* C,D are installed alone without the main program, but the install program
verifies that the main app is installed before installing them
* if the user uninstalls the main app, then additional datasets C,D,... are
also removed.
Thanks all!
Pete