Hi Nan,
Before running your custom action , run another custom action that will pass
that property to your custom action(set that as immediate). Something like this:
Where the "value" is the one that you want from the session, here I used
INSTALLLOCATION, so put there your own property. Make sure to run the
"SetProperty1" action before your c# custom action.
<CustomAction Id="SetProperty1" Property="UpdateKey" Value="[INSTALLLOCATION]"
Execute="immediate"/>
<CustomAction Id=" UpdateKey " BinaryKey="CustomAction" DllEntry="
UpdateKey " Return="check" Execute='deferred' Impersonate='no'/>
In the Installexecute sequence:
<Custom Action="SetProperty1" Before=" UpdateKey ">
<Custom Action=" UpdateKey " After="PublishProduct">
--Pavan
-----Original Message-----
From: Nan Zang [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 9:58 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] read a regkey with special permission
Hi,
I didn't find a possible way to get the regkey value. So, I decided to use an
elevated custom action to read the regkey.
However, I met with another issue.
>From my understanding since my customaction needs to be elevated, so it must
>be executed as deferred. However, deferred custom action cannot use session
>directly. How can I pass back this value to wix (or another custom action)? I
>must pass it back to wix for some sql operation.
My custom action is written in C# using
Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Nan
-----Original Message-----
From: Nan Zang [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 1:33 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
([email protected])
Subject: [WiX-users] read a regkey with special permission
Hi,
I am trying to read a regkey value in the msi. But, this regkey has special
ACL set on it, which only allows Local System/Administrator to read it.
I am using RegistrySearch Element to read the regkey. The operation will work
if the msi is launched through elevated cmd window. But, if launched normally,
the operation will fail with error.
"Info 1402. Could not open key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Test\.
System error 5. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact
your support personnel."
Could you recommend any solution to get this regkey value? At this point, we
prefer to avoid custom action if possible.
Thanks
Nan
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