Hi Peter & James,
I really appreciate your help on this - thank you!!
I went with the interop route and attach a sample app (if anyone is
interested) in what I have done.
Best Regards,
Anil.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
class Program
{
[DllImport("msi", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
static extern int MsiGetProductCode(string component, StringBuilder
buffer);
[DllImport("msi", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
static extern int MsiEnumFeatures(string product, uint featureIndex,
StringBuilder featureBuffer, StringBuilder parentBuffer);
[DllImport("msi", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
static extern int MsiQueryFeatureState(string product, string
featureBuffer);
public static string GetProductCode(string component)
{
StringBuilder productCodeStringBuilder = new StringBuilder(512);
int nRes = MsiGetProductCode(component,
productCodeStringBuilder);
return productCodeStringBuilder.ToString();
//switch (MsiGetProductCode(component,
productCodeStringBuilder))
//{
// case ERROR_SUCCESS:
// return productCodeStringBuilder.ToString();
// // *Please* don't actually just throw an exception like
this.
// // Throw the relevent exception based on the error code
returned.
// case ERROR_BAD_CONFIGURATION:
// throw new Exception("The configuration data is
corrupt.");
// case ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE:
// throw new Exception("The product code could not be
determined.");
// case ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER:
// throw new Exception("An invalid parameter was passed
to the function.");
// case ERROR_UNKNOWN_COMPONENT:
// throw new Exception("The specified component is
unknown.");
// default:
// throw new Exception();
//}
}
public static void EnumFeatures(string product)
{
StringBuilder featureBuf = new StringBuilder(256);
StringBuilder parentBuf = new StringBuilder(256);
for (uint i=0; ; i++)
{
int nRes = MsiEnumFeatures(product, i, featureBuf,
parentBuf);
if (nRes != 0)
break;
int featureQCode = QueryFeatureState(product,
featureBuf.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Feature {0} ",
featureBuf.ToString()));
}
return;
}
public static int QueryFeatureState(string product, string feature)
{
return MsiQueryFeatureState(product, feature);
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//pass in guid of product
string s =
GetProductCode("{14CCA315-92CE-48E7-8C7C-87923F770B47}");
EnumFeatures(s);
}
}
}
//useful links
http://source.winehq.org/source/include/msi.h
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369426(v=VS.85).aspx
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:33 PM, James Johnston <johnst...@inn-soft.com>wrote:
> You could always use the COM library if you're not comfortable with the C
> API calls. Add a COM reference to "Microsoft Windows Installer Object
> Library" to your project...
>
> Installer.get_Features and Installer.get_FeatureState look like they might
> be useful.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anil Patel [mailto:apatel...@googlemail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:12
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Identifying Features that have been installed
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Really appreciate your feedback on this.
>
> The MsiGetEnumsFeatues() is defined as
>
> UINT MsiEnumFeatures(
> __in LPCTSTR szProduct,
> __in DWORD iFeatureIndex,
> __out LPTSTR lpFeatureBuf,
> __out LPTSTR lpParentBuf
> );
>
> So to get the product code, I found this code
>
> [DllImport("msi", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
> static extern int MsiGetProductCode(string component, StringBuilder
> buffer);
>
> public static string GetProductCode(string component)
> {
> StringBuilder productCodeStringBuilder = new StringBuilder(512);
> switch (MsiGetProductCode(component, productCodeStringBuilder))
> {
> case ERROR_SUCCESS:
> return productCodeStringBuilder.ToString();
> // *Please* don't actually just throw an exception like
> this.
> // Throw the relevent exception based on the error code
> returned.
> case ERROR_BAD_CONFIGURATION:
> throw new Exception("The configuration data is
> corrupt.");
> case ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE:
> throw new Exception("The product code could not be
> determined.");
> case ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER:
> throw new Exception("An invalid parameter was passed to
> the function.");
> case ERROR_UNKNOWN_COMPONENT:
> throw new Exception("The specified component is
> unknown.");
> default:
> throw new Exception();
> }
> }
>
> The problem is thay symbolic constants in the switch statement (eg
> ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER which are uints) aren't recognised so error on
> compile.
>
> Do you know how I can resolve these. I'm assuming there might be an Enum
> for
> them but I can't locate them.
>
> Again any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Anil.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Peter Shirtcliffe
> <pshirtcli...@sdl.com>wrote:
>
> > MsiEnumFeatures()
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370098%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anil Patel [mailto:apatel...@googlemail.com]
> > Sent: 25 August 2011 11:08
> > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> > Subject: [WiX-users] Identifying Features that have been installed
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a configuration program that is run manually by a user
> > (following a new install or a change to an existing installation)
> > which allows the user to configure the installed features.
> >
> > There is a requirement to disable the configuration of features not
> > installed by the user.
> >
> > The question is, is there a way for the configuration program to
> > identify which featues have been installed?
> >
> > I could record this data into the registry during the install and
> > remove it when a feature is uninstalled but I just wondered if there
> > was any other way of doing this.
> >
> > Thank you for your time.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Anil.
> >
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