How to get the actual Installation folder

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Ahmed Saeed - 26 Apr 2007 09:43 GMT

HI

I created a setup project using visual studio, but I would like to retrieve
the actual Installation folder name that the user has entered during the
installation of the application using custom actions so that I can include
the folder name in one of the installed files.

any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Ahmed

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Phil Wilson - 26 Apr 2007 15:50 GMT

Create a registry item that contains this, case-sensitive:
[TARGETDIR]
TARGETDIR is the property name, and the brackets cause it it to resolve to
the actual path.

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[Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer]

> HI
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> Regards
> Ahmed

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Ahmed Saeed - 28 Apr 2007 17:31 GMT

Thank you Phil
This worked for me, I created a registry item as you said and I read it
using the RegRead method of the wscript.shell class,

Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
msgbox WshShell.RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TWS\MYDIR")

But is their a way to read the [TARGETDIR] property directly in session
class.
thank you
Ahmed

> Create a registry item that contains this, case-sensitive:
> [TARGETDIR]
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>> Regards
>> Ahmed

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