In .Net deployment project type, is it possible to read a text file by
Setup.Exe when the installation is in progress. I am distributing
Setup.exe, Setup.msi along with a text file. I want the Setup.exe to
read the text file and apply some settings from the text file once the
installation is complete. For every customer i will have a different
text file and I do not want to Build the project everytime I change
the text file. I have tried something like this in the Custom Action,
but it is unable to find the file (in the location of Setup.Exe) as it
is trying to locate the file where the project is getting installed:
string fileName = "installer.config";
string path = Application.StartupPath;
string filePath = path + "\\" + fileName;
string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(filePath);
foreach (string str in lines)
{
MessageBox.Show(str);
}
thanks
