In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
    "Abdullah Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  writes:

> Simple issue here, I need to pass in a property to my MSI from the
> commandline...the commandline would look something like this..
> 
> misexec product.msi /qr /norestart FILENAME="c:\data.xml"
> 
> I want it so that now in the MSI there is a property called FILENAME with
> the value c:\data.xml and I wanna beable to use that property for various
> things in the MSI.
> 
> How do I go about doing this?

MSI already supports this exactly as you describe.  Your command line
is correct.  Once you invoke the install this way, the property will
be set to the value given on the command line.  Only public
properties (all uppercase names) can be set from the command line.
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