Re: [WiX-users] How to find out the installlocation from WiX Bootstrapper after installation?

2014-12-05 Thread patrickpirzer
Thanks a lot for Your explanations! I have defined now a property in my GUI, which contains the complete installfolder-path. That's a little bit tricky but what shall You do? Goodbye and have a nice day! Patrick -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] How to find out the installlocation from WiX Bootstrapper after installation?

2014-12-04 Thread Nick Ramirez
A bootstrapper is just a list of install packages that are installed one after the other. So, if you had three install packages in the bootstrapper, you wouldn't have one install directory, you would have three. For example, if you bootstrapped SQL Server, the .NET framework and then your

Re: [WiX-users] How to find out the installlocation from WiX Bootstrapper after installation?

2014-12-03 Thread Nick Ramirez
You don't need to put an Id attribute on the Fragment, it won't be used. The Id attributes of Directory elements are themselves, properties. You can see the full path to your install directory be looking at the value of the property called INSTALLDIR. You can see it in the MSI log: msiexec /i

Re: [WiX-users] How to find out the installlocation from WiX Bootstrapper after installation?

2014-12-03 Thread patrickpirzer
Thank You Nick, but that's not exactly, what i need, because me and my customers are using the EXE-file, which is generated by the build of the bootstrapper-project. Is there a chance to find the path of the final installfolder by - per example - Bootstrapper.Engine.StringVariables[...]? I have

[WiX-users] How to find out the installlocation from WiX Bootstrapper after installation?

2014-12-02 Thread patrickpirzer
Hello, I have made a Bootstrapper-project in which i have defined an overridable variable for the installocation of my application. In the MsiPackage i have a hierarchy of subfolders under that installlocation. Here an example for better understanding: Fragment Id=MyFragment Directory