[wix-users] Custom action cannot access registry key for read

[Mahesh Wickramasinghe]

Thank you very much.

I was building it for x86. and ran it on a x64 computer.
that was the problem. how stupid.

Thanks again.

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Nir Bar via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Are you using the correct x86/x64 registry view?Try explicit open:
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> RegistryKey.OpenBaseKey(Microsoft.Win32.RegistryHive.LocalMachine,
> RegistryView.Registry64)
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