[wix-users] Logging values

[Joseph L. Casale]

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Subject: [wix-users] Logging values

> Hi Gang,
> I'm building an install that has a BUNCH of conditionals, and of course, I'm not
> getting what I THINK I should be getting, and it would be really useful for me
> to be able to output a message to the log file (which I do create) sort of like
> "Has_excel2016 is true"
> 
> and
> 
> "CustomAction Id="foo" Property = "Bar" has value "baz"
> 
> The real case is I really want to look at two properties
> 
> <Property Id="HAS_EXCEL2016" Secure="yes">
>    <RegistrySearch Id="NewSignature1" Root="HKLM"
> Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel\InstallRoot" Name="Path"
> Type="raw" />
> </Property>

I am not clear what your problem is? You marked the properties secure so
the value will be obscured. I see not merit for that given what the value
points to and you weren't clear as to what to problem is, but if it's that the
value is all asterisks then you now know what to do...