Re: [WiX-users] Name of the msi with in the install file

2008-02-24 Thread vishnum
Hello: Thank you very much for your response. What I am trying to do is I have a custom action (external, in a dll) which based on the msi name writes data to the registry. I tried using OriginalDatabase property for this but it kept returning empty string. It returns the name of the msi only

Re: [WiX-users] Name of the msi with in the install file

2008-02-21 Thread vishnum
Hello: And where does OriginalDatabase property gets set (As in after/before which event). Thanks, Vishnu -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Name-of-the-msi-with-in-the-install-file-tp15583249p15627797.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [WiX-users] Name of the msi with in the install file

2008-02-20 Thread vishnum
Hello: I read the post on data driven custom actions but I feel my case is a little different from the one there. Since the name of my MSI can be anything (which I dont know when I am creating the MSI) and the users who are going to install the MSI are not aware of custom table (all they know is

Re: [WiX-users] How to set a condition, that prevents custom actions on error

2008-02-19 Thread vishnum
Hello All: I wanted to do something similar here. I have a set of custom actions say X, Y and Z. Now I want to perform a different action for every custom action when the custom action fails. For eg: If X fails i want to write something to registry, if Y fails I want to delete a registry key and

[WiX-users] Name of the msi with in the install file

2008-02-19 Thread vishnum
Hello All: I have a condition inside my install file based on the name of the msi for e.g: if my msi is named X then i set some registry keys but if its name is Y then I set it to something else... So is it possible to get the name of the msi inside the install file or Custom Action. Regards,