Just a guess but you aren't initializing your pointer to null. Possibly the
API is trying to free the old string before allocating a new one...
On Mar 20, 2013, at 11:45 AM, "Tristen Fielding" <tfield...@tradestation.com>
wrote:
> We have a custom action that was working just fine in 3.5, we are upgrading
> to 3.7 and have noticed that for some reason we are getting an Out of Memory
> errors anytime we call WcaGetProperty.
>
> Our first entry point is called BeginInstall and here are the first few lines
> of code:
>
>
> UINT __stdcall BeginInstall(MSIHANDLE hModule)
> {
> CheckForDebugBreak();
>
> HRESULT hr=::WcaInitialize(hModule, "BeginInstall");
> ExitOnFailure(hr, "failed to initialize");
>
> // Test code...
> LPWSTR installFolder;
> hr=::WcaGetProperty(L"INSTALLDIR", &installFolder);
> ExitOnFailure(hr, "failed to get INSTALLDIR property value");
> ...
>
> Our current thinking is that somehow we are linking to the wrong version of
> wcautil.lib. We are using VS2012 building against VS2010 tool set, but we
> have tried both VS2012 and VS2010 both are failing with the same error code.
> Any idea?
>
>
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