VS.Net Setup Projects: Passing data to a Custom Action

[Rob Oliver]

Hi,

I've seen a walkthrough for passing data from a setup project to a custom
action (an application) with an InstallClass. I am curious though--can the
data also be intercepted by a custom action defined as a vbscript? If so,
does anyone have any idea how it would be accomplished?

Thanks!
Rob Oliver

[Mike Wade [MSFT]]

You can use Session.Property to access the CustomActionData property. Below is a jscript example that I have
used to test this in the past:

var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var filename = "C:\\install.txt";
var ts = fso.CreateTextFile(filename);
ts.WriteLine(Session.Property ("CustomActionData"));
ts.Close();

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Mike Wade, VB Team
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From: "Rob Oliver" <ro*****@hotmail.com>
Subject: VS.Net Setup Projects: Passing data to a Custom Action
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:23:16 -0500

Hi,

I've seen a walkthrough for passing data from a setup project to a custom
action (an application) with an InstallClass. I am curious though--can the
data also be intercepted by a custom action defined as a vbscript? If so,
does anyone have any idea how it would be accomplished?

Thanks!
Rob Oliver