microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.setup

Phil Wilson

12/11/2007 10:50:00 PM

You'd need an install custom action that does a copy of all the files in
that folder to some destination folder. The MSI folder properties that might
be useful (case-sensitive) are TARGETDIR for the application and SourceDir
for the location of the MSI file.
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Phil Wilson
[MVP Windows Installer]

<bram@plock.nl> wrote in message
news:d77bcbf9-d802-48d6-8f3e-30b1b8eb5775@w56g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all.
> I have an MSI question. My project (sort of an audio player) contains
> a nice working MSI setup file. However I want to add songs to this
> setup, that are not included in the MSI.
> So my scenario is:
> one setup.msi
> one folder with songs (that could change over time)
>
> After the setup is finished I want the MSI file to copy all files in
> the songs folder (included on my setup cd), to the target pc (just a
> fixed location).
>
> Is this possible in VS2005? If so any suggestions?
>
> thanx!
> cheers, bram