Access to installation files from Custom Actions class.

[Oleg Ogurok]

Hi all,

Is there a way to get the path to the temp directory where installation
files are unpacked to?
Also is there a way to specify in a deployment package that a file should
not be installed anywhere but simply included into the package? E.g. I want
to include install_docs.txt (as losely packaged) but it should not be copied
to the destination dir during install? I tried setting "Exclude" to true but
the file gets excluded from the deployment package completely.

Thank you.
-Oleg.

[Sijin Joseph]

Dear Oleg,

I found these two possible solutions

http://www.mcse.ms/message841562.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archiv.../31/65457.aspx

Sijin Joseph
http://www.indiangeek.net
http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph

Oleg Ogurok wrote:

Hi all,

Is there a way to get the path to the temp directory where installation
files are unpacked to?
Also is there a way to specify in a deployment package that a file should
not be installed anywhere but simply included into the package? E.g. I want
to include install_docs.txt (as losely packaged) but it should not be copied
to the destination dir during install? I tried setting "Exclude" to true but
the file gets excluded from the deployment package completely.

Thank you.
-Oleg.

[Oleg Ogurok]

I don't have any issues installing .NET framework. Did you even read my
question?

"Sijin Joseph" <si***************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Of**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Dear Oleg,

I found these two possible solutions

http://www.mcse.ms/message841562.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archiv.../31/65457.aspx

Sijin Joseph
http://www.indiangeek.net
http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph

Oleg Ogurok wrote:

Hi all,

Is there a way to get the path to the temp directory where installation
files are unpacked to?
Also is there a way to specify in a deployment package that a file should
not be installed anywhere but simply included into the package? E.g. I
want to include install_docs.txt (as losely packaged) but it should not
be copied to the destination dir during install? I tried setting
"Exclude" to true but the file gets excluded from the deployment package
completely.

Thank you.
-Oleg.

[Oleg Ogurok]

I'm sorry, I should have mentioned. This issue is related to working with
Setup & Deployment projects in Visual Studio .NET 2003. It's not related to
the .NET framework installation.

-Oleg.

"Sijin Joseph" <si***************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Of**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Dear Oleg,

I found these two possible solutions

http://www.mcse.ms/message841562.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archiv.../31/65457.aspx

Sijin Joseph
http://www.indiangeek.net
http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph

Oleg Ogurok wrote:

Hi all,

Is there a way to get the path to the temp directory where installation
files are unpacked to?
Also is there a way to specify in a deployment package that a file should
not be installed anywhere but simply included into the package? E.g. I
want to include install_docs.txt (as losely packaged) but it should not
be copied to the destination dir during install? I tried setting
"Exclude" to true but the file gets excluded from the deployment package
completely.

Thank you.
-Oleg.

[Sijin Joseph]

Dear Oleg,

I am sorry, this post was meant for the question just above yours, that
is about an error while installing .Net framework.

Sijin Joseph
http://www.indiangeek.net
http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph

Oleg Ogurok wrote:

Hi all,

Is there a way to get the path to the temp directory where installation
files are unpacked to?
Also is there a way to specify in a deployment package that a file should
not be installed anywhere but simply included into the package? E.g. I want
to include install_docs.txt (as losely packaged) but it should not be copied
to the destination dir during install? I tried setting "Exclude" to true but
the file gets excluded from the deployment package completely.

Thank you.
-Oleg.