How to access Property table in Windows INstaller?

[Michal]

Hi,

I am trying to change a Setup project (.NET 2005) so that I will be
able to perform a 'Quiet INstallation' without UI.
When I install this product with UI - I have several properties that I
have to set during installation: Some text boxes, and some radio
buttons.

1) How can I access Property table?
2) How to I update the 'SecureCustomProperties', so that an installing
user will be able to set his values to PUBLIC properties?
3) How do I get the return code from msiexec command? (I want to know
if it succeeded, or not + error code.)
4) Is there any other recommended way to do it??

Thanks,
Michal.

[Anthony Hunter]

The properties that you set with the dialogs can be set in the command
line when you run it silently.

msiexec /i "file.msi" PROPERTY1="test1" PROPERTY2="test2"

Any of your properties that you need to set from command line must be
public properties. So the properties that are in SecureCustomProperties need
to be public as well.

I believe msiexec returns non zero on failure.

Anthony

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[Michal]

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for your reply.
I still do not understand though -
1) How do I define a public property?
2) How do I edit/CHange/Add public properties to the list in
'SecureCustomProperties ' ?
3) I enter the following on the command shell:
msiexec /i Setup.msi /quiet /l* log_7.log CLS_IP="172.23.2.121"
But CLS_IP at the end of the installation remains with the default
value set in the .NETs setup project.

Thanks,
Michal

[Anthony Hunter]

1) A public property is something in all uppercase. You can define these in
the property table or through custom actions.
2) Just edit the property table and add/edit/change the
SecureCustomProperties property. Seperate the properties with a semi-colon.
3) If CLS_IP is still being set to the default during the install, then
something in the install is over writing the one entered on the command
line. Could be a custom action.

Most of the answers to your questions are in the MSI help.

Anthony

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