I'm guessing that you are declaring a property in a merge module and trying to use it in the installer. The merge module will append a .GUID to the property name unless you give it set the SuppressModularization attribute. Alternatively you can use the correct property name including .GUID in your installer.
---------------------------------------- From: "Erkan Celme" <ece...@discovertechnologies.com> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 2:42 PM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Escaping brackets [ ] in merge modules (MSM) I'm not sure what you mean by that. " Merge Modules append the Module/@Id to all identifiers." Which identifiers? How is that breaking the escape characters? Could you please elaborate? Thanks in advance Erkan Celme Phone: 312-927-5180 -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 11:24 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Escaping brackets [ ] in merge modules (MSM) Merge Modules append the Module/@Id to all identifiers. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Erkan Celme < ece...@discovertechnologies.com> wrote: > There are cases where I need to have brackets (square brackets) in > certain actions like running a SQL script that requires brackets or in > an XPath expression. You can escape them in a regular installer (MSI) > project by using [\[] or [\]], to open and close respectively. When I > do the same in a merge module, it doesn't work. For instance, if I > have a property called > PROP1 with a value of "Value1", if I need, "[Value1]" as a literal, I > can do [\[][Value1][\]] and get what I need. However, in a merge > module, the same syntax produces an empty string. Does anyone have any > idea why it doesn't work the same way in a merge module? Any ideas on > how to work around this? > > Thanks in advance. > Erkan > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. > Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. > Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
