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Stuart
Stuart

Reputation: 12235

How to set the Application Folder on installation

I need to copy some files to the Application folder when installing with an msi. I was looking at using a launch condition to establish if the folder exists but I need to continue and install in an alternative folder if FALSE.

can I programatically set the Application Folder at installation

Upvotes: 0

Views: 424

Answers (2)

Alexey Ivanov
Alexey Ivanov

Reputation: 11878

You can use file search or a custom action which checks whether one of the folders exists. Then you use mutually exclusive conditions on two custom actions, which will set the value of a property, PLUGINDIR. Then you use this property as the target directory for plugin files.

You have to do it before MSI goes to InstallInitialize action.

Upvotes: 1

Andre Haverdings
Andre Haverdings

Reputation: 917

First of all you should always let the user descide what the application folder should be.

Second: depending on the tool you use for creating the msi it must be possible to read the selected installation folder and copy file to it. e.g. When you use a Visual Studio Setup Project you can use [TARGETDIR] as a property in the File System view. With that you can ouput files in your solution to that folder.

Upvotes: 0

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