[wix-users] when creating registry value, can I not log it to the MSI log file?

Hoover, Jacob Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com
Thu Jul 7 10:29:05 PDT 2016


Create a bundle, gather the info in the bundle and pass it as a MsiProperty to X and Y?


> On Jul 7, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Steve Ogilvie <sogilvie at msn.com> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> I have several MSI’s in my installer.
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> Let’s call two of them X and Y…
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> Y requires some information from X
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> So what I do is create some registry entries in X, which Y
> reads and later deletes the registry entries…
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> 2 of those registry entries are passwords…
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> Is there any way to *NOT* log the registry value into
> the MSI log file?
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> i.e. when I use:
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> <RegistryKey Id="ProductId" ForceCreateOnInstall="yes" ForceDeleteOnUninstall="yes" Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\MYCO\MyProduct">
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> <!-- The password will be deleted by the next installer -->
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> <RegistryValue Type="string" Name="Password" Value="[A_PASSWORD]"/>
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> Thanks,
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> Steve                         
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