Help Custom Action in Setup Problem

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Jamie Bissett

I have written an installer class that I invoke as a custom action. I have
asses 2 screens in the installation process that pass data to this Installer
Class. I have succesfully debugged the application and it reaceives all the
variables fine from the custom screens. The Cstom Action Data is
/SERVER=[DB_SERVER] /USER=[DB_USER] /PASSWORD=[DB_PASSWORD] /NAME=[DB_NAME]
/LOCATION=[LOCATION]

I tried to add the Installation directory to the data used by this installer
class
/SERVER=[DB_SERVER] /USER=[DB_USER] /PASSWORD=[DB_PASSWORD] /NAME=[DB_NAME]
/LOCATION=[LOCATION] /DIR=[TARGETDIR]

but now the process craps out before the install method is called in my
class. The error is as follows:

Exception occured while initializing file installation.
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name Eden or one of its
dependencies was not found.

I am totaly baffeld, any help would be appreciated
 
Jamie Bissett said:
I have written an installer class that I invoke as a custom action. I have
asses 2 screens in the installation process that pass data to this
Installer Class. I have succesfully debugged the application and it
reaceives all the variables fine from the custom screens. The Cstom Action
Data is
/SERVER=[DB_SERVER] /USER=[DB_USER] /PASSWORD=[DB_PASSWORD]
/NAME=[DB_NAME] /LOCATION=[LOCATION]

I tried to add the Installation directory to the data used by this
installer class
/SERVER=[DB_SERVER] /USER=[DB_USER] /PASSWORD=[DB_PASSWORD]
/NAME=[DB_NAME] /LOCATION=[LOCATION] /DIR=[TARGETDIR]

but now the process craps out before the install method is called in my
class. The error is as follows:

Exception occured while initializing file installation.
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name Eden or one of its
dependencies was not found.

I am totaly baffeld, any help would be appreciated
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After much digging I have found the answer to my own problem again.

When you are specifying a Windows Installer parameter that returns a
directory you must enclose the parm in quotes and include a trailing
backslash i.e.
/DIR="[TARGETDIR]\" not /DIr=[TARGERDIR]
The var can then be referenced in the Installer class through
Context.Parameters("DIR").

This works fine now
 
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