Hello everyone,
I would like to add an active setup to my project (mst file). I have set a .reg file that I want to import:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\[ProductCode]]
"StubPath"="msiexec.exe /fomus [ProductCode] /qb".
But when I import, this is what I've got on AI:
msiexec.exe /fomus [\[]ProductCode[\]] /qb.
Of course it doesn't work when I test it.
Is there a way to solve this? I would like to have an active setup reg file that I can import in any packages without doing modification.
Thanks for your help.
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Re: Configure an active Setup
Hello and welcome to our forums,
Unfortunately this is our default behavior when importing registry values. We escape using formatted escape characters sequence ([\]) all formatted special chars (e.g. [, {, etc) so that at install time they will be written in the registry exactly as they are.
Unfortunately if you want the [ProductCode] property reference be used as a formatted reference you will have to manually un-escape it by removing the [\] chars sequence.
Also, if the reason you are trying to create that registry key is because you are interested in installing some product's files for all the existing users on a machine, you can have a look on the "Deliver a file to all users profile programmatically" article which my colleague Dan just wrote.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Catalin
Unfortunately this is our default behavior when importing registry values. We escape using formatted escape characters sequence ([\]) all formatted special chars (e.g. [, {, etc) so that at install time they will be written in the registry exactly as they are.
Unfortunately if you want the [ProductCode] property reference be used as a formatted reference you will have to manually un-escape it by removing the [\] chars sequence.
Also, if the reason you are trying to create that registry key is because you are interested in installing some product's files for all the existing users on a machine, you can have a look on the "Deliver a file to all users profile programmatically" article which my colleague Dan just wrote.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Catalin