issues with special characters in ProductName property

[vizagboy]

I am using VS 2005 setup and deployment project. When I try to set the
Product Name to A&B, it is failing to escape. Changing the Product Name to
A&&B fixed the display of the ProductName, but the Title on the installation
screens and the display name in Add/Remove Programs is messed up. Can someone
explain how to escape the special characters in VS2005?

For your information, if I try the same in VS 2008, it works good. However,
we cannot upgrade to VS2008 right now.

Thanks

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

vizagboy <viza...@discussions.microsoft.com> writes:

> I am using VS 2005 setup and deployment project. When I try to
> set the Product Name to A&B, it is failing to escape. Changing
> the Product Name to A&&B fixed the display of the ProductName,
> but the Title on the installation screens and the display name
> in Add/Remove Programs is messed up. Can someone explain how
> to escape the special characters in VS2005?

I'm not really familiar with setup and deployment projects in VS2005
but the symptoms seem like msidbControlAttributesNoPrefix is missing
from some controls that have [ProductName] in Control.Text.
If VS2005 generates an *.msi file for you, perhaps you can add the
missing attribute as a post-build step. However, if VS2005 also
wraps the *.msi in an *.exe, postprocessing becomes harder.

[Wilson, Phil]

I've seen this before and haven't been able to fix it. The issue is that the
& is used as a keyboard shortcut indicator, just like it is in Windows UI
programming. &Next means N is the key, swallow the & and don't display it.
There should be a way, I just haven't found it. Docs indicate that [\&]
should escape the & and show it properly, but alas no.

--
Phil Wilson
The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590592972

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