Do you plan for the case where somehow the application makes it way onto a machine via a means other than Windows Installer?
What will your app do when the stuff you want to do during Setup hasn't been done? -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stanislav Petko Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 7:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Reading registry key and writing it into propety during installation This is not my case, because I have "setup project" (deployment), not windows application project, so I do not have any class in it and it uses standard setup dialogs. Stano. David Lanouette wrote: >Take a look at the Registery class. It has methods to read and write >entries in the registery. Getting it into a property in one of your >classes will require writing a little code - maybe in a constructor. > >HTH. > > >On 12/2/05, Stanislav Peťko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hello everyone. >> >>I have a setup project in VS.NET 2003. I know how to write a registry >>key during installation. But I already need the opposite. I need to read >>a key from registry and write its value into some property. To be >>concrete, I need to read a value from >>HKLM\Software\[Manufacturer]\SomeKey and write it to property >>[TARGETDIR], before setup wizard's dialog for installation directory is >>displayed, so this value is predefined. >> >>Thanks a lot for any help, Stano >> >>=================================== >>This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŽ http://www.develop.com >> >>View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com >> >> >> > > >-- >______________________________ >- David Lanouette >- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŽ http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŽ http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
