Have you tried running the uninstall with logging enabled (msiexec /x setup.msi /L*vx Setup.log) to see what is going on?
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Peter Oehlert [mailto:poehl...@securityinnovation.com] Sent: 29 January 2009 22:09 To: 'General discussion for Windows 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 populated from the registry properly on uninstall. It might be that the keys are deleted (uninstalled) before they get a chance to be read or it might be they're just being ignored. Second, I'm not sure that I have my custom action set up correctly to get run at uninstall. I need it to get the server name in the expected sql format (either {dbname}\{instancename} or just {dbname}). The relevant values are below. Any help would be appreciated, I really can't figure out what to do at this point. Thanks, Peter It looks something like this: <RegistryKey Id="CreateKey" Root="HKLM" Action="create" Key="$(var.RegKey)"> <RegistryValue Id="SetDatabaseServer" Action="write" Type="string" Name="DatabaseServer" Value="[TMEDATABASESERVER]" /> <RegistryValue Id="SetDatabaseInstance" Action="write" Type="string" Name="DatabaseInstance" Value="[TMEDATABASEINSTANCE]" /> <RegistryValue Id="SetDatabaseName" Action="write" Type="string" Name="DatabaseName" Value="[TMEDATABASENAME]" /> </RegistryKey> And <Property Id="TMEDATABASESERVER" Value="(local)"> <RegistrySearch Id="RegistrySearchTMEDatabaseServer" Type="raw" Root="HKLM" Key="$(var.RegKey)" Name="DatabaseServer" /> </Property> <Property Id="TMEDATABASEINSTANCE" Value="SQLEXPRESS"> <RegistrySearch Id="RegistrySearchTMEDatabaseInstance" Type="raw" Root="HKLM" Key="$(var.RegKey)" Name="DatabaseInstance" /> </Property> <Property Id="TmeDatabase" Value=".\SQL" /> <Property Id="TMEDATABASENAME" Value="TME"> <RegistrySearch Id="RegistrySearchTMEDatabaseName" Type="raw" Root="HKLM" Key="$(var.RegKey)" Name="DatabaseName" /> </Property> Because I support both named and unnamed instances I have a custom action to copy the property from TMEDATABASESERVER and TMEDATABASEINSTANCE to TmeDatabase correctly depending on whether TMEDATABASEINSTANCE is specified. That looks like: <CustomAction Id="CA_SetDatabaseNoInstance" Return="check" Property="TmeDatabase" Value="[TMEDATABASESERVER]" /> <CustomAction Id="CA_SetDatabaseInstance" Return="check" Property="TmeDatabase" Value="[TMEDATABASESERVER]\[TMEDATABASEINSTANCE]" /> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="CA_SetDatabaseInstance" Before="InstallValidate"><![CDATA[TMEDATABASEINSTANCE]]></Custom> <Custom Action="CA_SetDatabaseNoInstance" Before="InstallValidate"><![CDATA[NOT TMEDATABASEINSTANCE]]></Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence> -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Saturday, January 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 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Oehlert [mailto:poehl...@securityinnovation.com] Sent: 24 January 2009 19:58 To: 'General discussion 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 <sql:SqlDatabase /> 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 default values. I basically have a UI Dialog with a Edit control that is tied to a property for each of these values. I then dereference the property in the SqlDatabase element. How do I persist this value so that when I uninstall it tries to drop the correct database rather than the default one? 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