[wix-users] How can I check for available disk space in burn bootstrapper?

Mayooran Macilamany mayooran99 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 9 03:46:32 PDT 2016


Hey Farukh,

Where is this XML created at? I don't see it in my bin/release directory?

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Farrukh Waheed <farrukh1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You may need to parse BootstrapperApplicationData.xml and read all package
> size. You can get user's selected drive by using DriveInfo class and get
> that Drive's free space.
>
> I compare and set this while setting Destination Directory property for my
> bundle, so whenever/wherever you are setting this property, the comparison
> would happen for free space availability.
>
>
> On 8 July 2016 at 17:56, Mayooran Macilamany <mayooran99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I created this installer using burn bootstrapper and I need to show an
> > error message on my WPF UI if the available disk space is not enough.
> > Currently I added hook to the CacheComplete event and show and error
> > message if its args status is less than zero. It works on certain
> occasion
> > but in certain other occasions though there is no disk space, this method
> > still returns zero. What is the correct way to determine if there is
> enough
> > space using burn? Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
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