Is there is a way to get/enum properties passed using msiexec? I need to show an error if property is misspelled.
Get command line arguments in Wix
2.2k views Asked by Sergey Ch. At
2
There are 2 answers
5
Christopher Painter
On
For some reason Windows Installer never implemented a property enumeration function. You can query the property table but that only gets you properties defined in the table at build time. I know of no way to do what you are trying to do. My best work around is to front end the MSI with an EXE bootstrapper and do your checks there. You can then pass something like EXEDRIVEN=1 to your MSI and then have your MSI gate check on that property.
Another thought is to use CLIENTPROCESSID to query Win32_Process in a custom action.
Related Questions in WINDOWS
- What is `_dereq_()` inside React?
- React TypeError: React.renderComponent is not a function
- React - saving a component in the ref callback
- React Rails component: manually triggering a re-render
- React, ES6 - getInitialState was defined on a plain JavaScript class
- How to get multiple selected options value in React JS?
- React.render replace container instead of inserting into
- reactjs datagrid use html
- props is not initialized in react component
- How to display xml data using Reactjs
Related Questions in WIX
- What is `_dereq_()` inside React?
- React TypeError: React.renderComponent is not a function
- React - saving a component in the ref callback
- React Rails component: manually triggering a re-render
- React, ES6 - getInitialState was defined on a plain JavaScript class
- How to get multiple selected options value in React JS?
- React.render replace container instead of inserting into
- reactjs datagrid use html
- props is not initialized in react component
- How to display xml data using Reactjs
Related Questions in INSTALLATION
- What is `_dereq_()` inside React?
- React TypeError: React.renderComponent is not a function
- React - saving a component in the ref callback
- React Rails component: manually triggering a re-render
- React, ES6 - getInitialState was defined on a plain JavaScript class
- How to get multiple selected options value in React JS?
- React.render replace container instead of inserting into
- reactjs datagrid use html
- props is not initialized in react component
- How to display xml data using Reactjs
Related Questions in WINDOWS-INSTALLER
- What is `_dereq_()` inside React?
- React TypeError: React.renderComponent is not a function
- React - saving a component in the ref callback
- React Rails component: manually triggering a re-render
- React, ES6 - getInitialState was defined on a plain JavaScript class
- How to get multiple selected options value in React JS?
- React.render replace container instead of inserting into
- reactjs datagrid use html
- props is not initialized in react component
- How to display xml data using Reactjs
Related Questions in WIX3.7
- What is `_dereq_()` inside React?
- React TypeError: React.renderComponent is not a function
- React - saving a component in the ref callback
- React Rails component: manually triggering a re-render
- React, ES6 - getInitialState was defined on a plain JavaScript class
- How to get multiple selected options value in React JS?
- React.render replace container instead of inserting into
- reactjs datagrid use html
- props is not initialized in react component
- How to display xml data using Reactjs
Popular Questions
- How do I undo the most recent local commits in Git?
- How can I remove a specific item from an array in JavaScript?
- How do I delete a Git branch locally and remotely?
- Find all files containing a specific text (string) on Linux?
- How do I revert a Git repository to a previous commit?
- How do I create an HTML button that acts like a link?
- How do I check out a remote Git branch?
- How do I force "git pull" to overwrite local files?
- How do I list all files of a directory?
- How to check whether a string contains a substring in JavaScript?
- How do I redirect to another webpage?
- How can I iterate over rows in a Pandas DataFrame?
- How do I convert a String to an int in Java?
- Does Python have a string 'contains' substring method?
- How do I check if a string contains a specific word?
Popular Tags
Trending Questions
- UIImageView Frame Doesn't Reflect Constraints
- Is it possible to use adb commands to click on a view by finding its ID?
- How to create a new web character symbol recognizable by html/javascript?
- Why isn't my CSS3 animation smooth in Google Chrome (but very smooth on other browsers)?
- Heap Gives Page Fault
- Connect ffmpeg to Visual Studio 2008
- Both Object- and ValueAnimator jumps when Duration is set above API LvL 24
- How to avoid default initialization of objects in std::vector?
- second argument of the command line arguments in a format other than char** argv or char* argv[]
- How to improve efficiency of algorithm which generates next lexicographic permutation?
- Navigating to the another actvity app getting crash in android
- How to read the particular message format in android and store in sqlite database?
- Resetting inventory status after order is cancelled
- Efficiently compute powers of X in SSE/AVX
- Insert into an external database using ajax and php : POST 500 (Internal Server Error)
All properties set at the command line must be PUBLIC (uppercase) properties, and if they are set on the command line they should be added to the list of properties passed through to the server installation process via the SecureCustomProperties property delimited list of properties. Any property not listed here won't be available in deferred installation mode where changes of all kinds can be made since it runs with the LocalSystem account - the built-in operating system service account. The user interface sequence runs with user rights, and can be skipped entirely if the install is run silently.
If you keep this list of properties in SecureCustomProperties properties updated with all properties accepted set via the command line, you can enumerate over them with a simple string operation. You split the string by semicolon, and then enumerate all the values. You can set default values in the property table, and override them on the command line. Your code can check whether the values sent to the server process are the default ones or if they have been changed. You can even set an unacceptable value as default, so the property has to be overridden via command line.
Be aware of the EnableUserControl property.