Re: [WiX-users] Install variable not kept around for uninstall?

2009-01-29 Thread Peter Oehlert
ndows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Install variable not kept around for uninstall? So I persisted my property value to the registry and use a registry search in the property to try to retrieve the value. My issue is 2 fold. One, the property values aren't being po

Re: [WiX-users] Install variable not kept around for uninstall?

2009-01-29 Thread Neil Sleightholm
r XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Install variable not kept around for uninstall? So I persisted my property value to the registry and use a registry search in the property to try to retrieve the value. My issue is 2 fold. One, the property values aren't being populated from the re

Re: [WiX-users] Install variable not kept around for uninstall?

2009-01-29 Thread Peter Oehlert
24, 2009 2:34 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Install variable not kept around for uninstall? If you need properties at uninstall time you need to persist them somewhere and read them on uninstall, the registry is a common location for these. Neil -

Re: [WiX-users] Install variable not kept around for uninstall?

2009-01-24 Thread Neil Sleightholm
ssion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: [WiX-users] Install variable not kept around for uninstall? So my scenario is that I query the user at install time what the database server, instance, and name should be. I then use these variables in a element to install a database.

[WiX-users] Install variable not kept around for uninstall?

2009-01-24 Thread Peter Oehlert
So my scenario is that I query the user at install time what the database server, instance, and name should be. I then use these variables in a element to install a database. This works great, except that if I change any of the default values at uninstall it seems to go back to using the defa