=UserId
Value={----} Type=string Action=write /
Thx
Pat
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Bush
Sent: 18 February 2008 16:07
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Create New Guid in Installer
Does anyone know
I'm new to wix and msi but it looks like you'll need to use a custom action,
you could call into a dll or write a
vbscript (it looks like using scripts in custom actions may be frowned
upon), anyway you can set a property to a new
guid and then reference that, the simplest example would be with a
I assume you can't use:
----
Or maybe set this as the content of a property then use that property.
Seems annoying to have to reinvent the wheel when WIX clearly has the
code to do it.
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:07:12 -0800, Steve Bush wrote:
Steve,
Does anyone know of an easy way in WIX to automatically create a
GUID on install? I want to create a GUID that represents the user
and place it in the registry.
Just write a five-minute custom action in C or your language of
Not sure if this will work for you but we've created GUIDs the following way
in the past.
?define SkuPackageCode = {----}?
I'm not sure we have example of what you're doing so maybe it'll work
maybe it won't.
RegistryValue Root=HKCU Key=Software\omitted
Does anyone know of an easy way in WIX to automatically create a GUID on
install? I want to create a GUID that represents the user and place it in the
registry. Here's an example:
RegistryValue Root=HKCU Key=Software\omitted
Name=UserId Value=newGuid Type=string
I'm new to wix and msi but it looks like you'll need to use a custom action,
you could call into a dll or write a
vbscript (it looks like using scripts in custom actions may be frowned upon),
anyway you can set a property to a new
guid and then reference that, the simplest example would be with
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