The formatting process is intentionally not that automatic, because often you want to know what is the unformatted raw string. To get the formatting/substitution to happen you need to to pass the string through Session.Format().
-----Original Message----- From: Ajay Bhandari [mailto:aja...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:09 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Reading custom record (column type = Formatted) from DTF custom action I have custom table defined which has a column of type "Formatted". As I understand, this column type will allow me to define value consisting of property names etc that will be resolved automatically. <CustomTable Id=some_table> <Column Id=xyz Type=Formatted .../> ... <Row> <Data Column=xyz>[MYPROPERTY]</Data> </Row> ... </CustomTable> /// code in CA View myview = session.Database.OpenView("Select * from some_table"); myView.Execute(); Record rec = myView.Fetch(); // This should return MYPROPERTY value but always returns "[MYPROPERTY]" String myPropVal = (string)rec[1]; When I try to read this from DTF custom action, the record value always contains the formatted string 'as-is'. It never gets resolved to the property value. My CA is sequenced after "InstallInitialize". Sadly, I couldn't find a sample/reference anywhere about this scenario. Appreciate if you can help me diagnose and find out what am I doing wrong here? Thanks. Ajay ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
