[WiX-users] TARGETDIR not being set

2012-10-24 Thread Filip Balas
NOOB Alert: I have been learning the ins and outs of WiX for appoximately a day. I am having problems setting the TARGETDIR path. I used dark.exe to reverse engineer a working MSI and read any posts I could find on this subject but I seem to be unable to set the TARGETDIR to point to the path

Re: [WiX-users] TARGETDIR not being set

2012-10-24 Thread Narina, Chandra
Chandra Sekhar -Original Message- From: Filip Balas [mailto:fba...@petersco.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:48 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] TARGETDIR not being set NOOB Alert: I have been learning the ins and outs of WiX for appoximately a da

Re: [WiX-users] TARGETDIR not being set

2012-10-24 Thread Filip Balas
Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] TARGETDIR not being set Hi, Use Directory attribute instead of property. (it's a Type 35 Custom Action) and Schedule this action after InstallValidate in the Execute sequence - that's when directories are checked for write access and

Re: [WiX-users] TARGETDIR not being set

2012-10-26 Thread Nick Ramirez
You probably don't want to use TARGETDIR in this way. TARGETDIR points to the root directorty (C:\ for example) of where your files will be installed to. It's not typically where you put components. See this link about TARGETDIR: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa372064(