Can the destination dir in a setup be initialized?

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Owen - 04 Nov 2005 16:47 GMT

I am writing a setup using a VS setup project, but I want to eliminate
the destination dir panel and just prereq that the homedir is already
set in a registry key.

Is it possible (without using orca) to cause the targetDir to be the
value in a registry key?

owen

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Phil Wilson - 05 Nov 2005 01:55 GMT

There's some stuff here that should help, about half-way through.

http://www.simple-talk.com/2005/04/25/getting-started-with-setup-projects/

Basically you'll be doing a search for a registry key and using it to create
a custom folder.

You might discover that you can go to the User Interface view and simply
delete the Installation Folder dialog, but that's also the dialog that sets
the Just me/Everyone choice (per-user or per-system) and if you elimate that
choice, you'll get a per-user install by default, and that's perhaps not
what you want, so it's still Orca time.

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>I am writing a setup using a VS setup project, but I want to eliminate
> the destination dir panel and just prereq that the homedir is already
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Can the destination dir in a setup be initialized?

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