"Darren Green" <darren.green@reply-to-newsgroup-sqldts.com> wrote in message
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> I want to write my own registry string value that contains the filename
> of my Primary Output. I can use the "Registry" screen in my setup
> project to create the keys and the string value, but to get the actual
> filename I am thinking there must be a property I can use, similar to
> the way I can user [TARGETDIR] to get the folder, but in this case I
> want both the folder and the filename for the primary output.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Thanks
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"Darren Green" <darren.green@reply-to-newsgroup-sqldts.com> wrote in message
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> In message <eAC6ytb6DHA.2392@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, Phil Wilson
> <phil.wilson@unisys.spamcom> writes
> >Have you tried just using [TARGETDIR]programname.exe in a registry value?
>
> Phil,
>
> That is what I am using now. What happens if programname.exe changes?
> Since the installer appears to reference the Primary Output of my
> project, not a specific file I assume it keeps going, but any values
> that I have coded programname.exe in are now obsolete. I thought that
> there may be a better way of doing it that didn't rely on hard coding.
>
> Cheers
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> Darren Green (SQL Server MVP)
> DTS - http://www.sqldts.com

>Have you tried just using [TARGETDIR]programname.exe in a registry value?

>It can be done, but I'm pretty sure Visual Studio doesn't expose that
>particular
>Windows Installer capability in the IDE. If you look at:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/set
>up/formatted.asp
>and the [#filekey] part, that's what does it. The filekey for your exe isn't
>visible in the VS IDE for Setup projects, so using it would be a manual process
>using a MSI editor like Orca, and you probably couldn't rely on VS to keep that
>filekey unchanged - it's just a private implementation detail to VS.