Re: [WiX-users] Burn built-in variables question

2014-09-08 Thread TimM
Yes I already do this, but I was trying to get the value so that it could be appended to a property that gets passed to the main installer. Since what gets passed to the install will override what defaults gets set in main install those and therefore you lose the entries. I'll figure something o

Re: [WiX-users] Burn built-in variables question

2014-09-08 Thread Rob Mensching
Neither Burn nor wixstdba read environment variables so you'd need to write code to do that. In WiX v3.8 you could maybe write a BA function (though I've never tried that myself). Although if you're just going to pass it to the MSI, why not have the MSI get the variable. Windows Installer read

Re: [WiX-users] Burn built-in variables question

2014-09-08 Thread TimM
Sorry, Rob but I am still at a loss here as how what I would need to update to be able to get the values of these environment variables into the WiX burn bootstrapper that then get passed to my .msi installer. Again I am not up to date with programming skills and therefore having to update code is

Re: [WiX-users] Burn built-in variables question

2014-09-05 Thread Rob Mensching
: Friday, September 5, 2014 2:05 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn built-in variables question Thanks Rob... Since I have not yet had to do any Burn customization is there any samples that would help me get started on how to customizing the BootstrapperApplication

Re: [WiX-users] Burn built-in variables question

2014-09-05 Thread TimM
Thanks Rob... Since I have not yet had to do any Burn customization is there any samples that would help me get started on how to customizing the BootstrapperApplication? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-built-in-varia

Re: [WiX-users] Burn built-in variables question

2014-09-05 Thread Rob Mensching
, 2014 11:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Burn built-in variables question There are a bunch of Burn built-in variables that we can use, but if what I want is not included in that list then how can I go about declaring a new variable that gets a standard environment

[WiX-users] Burn built-in variables question

2014-09-05 Thread TimM
There are a bunch of Burn built-in variables that we can use, but if what I want is not included in that list then how can I go about declaring a new variable that gets a standard environment variable? Basically what I need is to get the %USERDNSDOMAIN and %USERDOMAIN environment variables and app