It's not a bug in the WiX toolset. It's a behavior of the Windows Installer (aka: MSI). You should ask them why they made that decision. It frustrates developers all the time.
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Shashank Padmanabhan (Aditi Technologies Private LTD) <v-sh...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Isn't this a bug in WIX? > The value obtained from the registry is a valid path. The value in > registry points to the actual location. > DualFolders comes into picture when we are trying to read a registry value > and it is redirected to either of 32 or 64 bit portion of registry. But, > once we read from the right portion of registry, it will contain the right > value! Why on earth is the installer modifying what is obtained after > reading from the right location? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shashank Padmanabhan (Aditi Technologies Private LTD) [mailto: > v-sh...@microsoft.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:48 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIN64DUALFOLDERS Issue - Installer modifying > values obtained from registry > > As suggested below, Tried obtaining EXCELPATH using Win64="yes". Still > have the same problem. It modifies the path and points to a 32 bit location. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shashank Padmanabhan (Aditi Technologies Private LTD) [mailto: > v-sh...@microsoft.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:15 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIN64DUALFOLDERS Issue - Installer modifying > values obtained from registry > > thanks for the reply Jacob. Will try it out tomorrow when in office. > I also found that the same works on a 2010 version of office (32 & 64 bit, > on 64 bit OS). One would have expected it to fail on that too, but it works > there. > ________________________________________ > From: Hoover, Jacob [jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:54 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIN64DUALFOLDERS Issue - Installer modifying > values obtained from registry > > On a 64 bit OS you'd probably want a second search with Win64=yes. > > <Property Id="EXCELPATH32"> > <RegistrySearch Id="ExcelDirSearch32" Root="HKLM" > Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\excel.exe" > Type="raw" /> </Property> > > <Property Id="EXCELPATH64"> > <RegistrySearch Id="ExcelDirSearch64" Root="HKLM" > Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\excel.exe" > Type="raw" Win64="yes" /> </Property> > > The 2nd RegistrySearch will probably give you an ICE80 *warning* for using > a 64-bit RegistrySearch in a 32-bit package which you can suppress (or just > ignore if you don't have treat warning as errors on) but it should work on > both x86 & x64 systems. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shashank Padmanabhan (Aditi Technologies Private LTD) [mailto: > v-sh...@microsoft.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:59 AM > To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] WIN64DUALFOLDERS Issue - Installer modifying values > obtained from registry > > Hi all, > > I am using WIX and trying to read installed location of excel application > from Registry. Goal is to launch excel post install based on what the user > chooses. > I obtain the same using a property below. > > <Property Id="EXCELPATH"> > <RegistrySearch Id="ExcelDirSearch" Root="HKLM" > Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\excel.exe" > Type="raw" /> </Property> > > This obtains the appropriate path. But, it immediately modifies it on a > system with 64 bit OS with either of 32 or 64 bit 2013 excel. (It works on > 12 other combinations of Win7, Win8, Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 2013 > all possible combinations of 32 & 64 bit) Actual Value in Registry: > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\..." > Modified Value by Installer: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\..." > The obtained value in the property is now no longer valid, since it has > the extra ' (x86)' characters in it. > > I searched around and came across this link< > http://www.mentby.com/Group/wix-users/registrysearch-converts-value-data.html>, > where it was suggested to use a custom action to modify the value. We used > a custom action to modify the property. But we found that the value is not > reflected when the final dialog tries to launch excel on its exit. > > Additionally, I also tried this. Instead of using EXCELPATH directly to > launch excel, I created a dummy property, set it in the custom action and > then tried to use to launch excel using that. > <Property Id="ACTUAL_EXCELPATH"> > </Property> > Interestingly we found that the property value was being set as per the > custom action and was available only until 'InstallFinalize' event. It was > cleared out by the time the final dialog was using it to launch excel! (See > attached log file) When we hard coded ACTUAL_EXCELPATH property value to > the actual value in registry, it remained available after 'InstallFinalize' > event. > > What do I need to do to fix this issue? > > Note: > Also, one weird thing I observed. I quadruple checked this. > Win8 64 bit, 2013 32 bit office points to 64 bit programs files location. > So is the same with registry value at 'CurrentVersion\App Paths\excel'. > Win8 64 bit, 2013 64 bit office points to 64 bit programs files location. > So is the same with registry value at CurrentVersion\App Paths\excel. > A little perplexed that 32 & 64 bit versions of office are both at the > same program files location (Installed 2 different PC's). Location being - > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\...". The 32 bit version of office > should have installed at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\..."! > > Thanks, > Shashank > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only > SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers > powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & > servers with just a few lines of code. 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