[wix-users] rejecting unknown properties supplied on command line

[Christopher Painter]

There is no way that I'm aware of.  The MSI log shows all the properties passed to the msiexec command line but as I recall there is no API to find every property that was set.


If this is really critical to you,  you could write a bootstrapper to write the MSI and have it pass a property to the MSI  (InstallShield uses SETUPEXEDRIVEN=1)  that the MSI could use to gate check.   If it's installed directly without this it could quit.   The bootstrapper could then do whatever cmdline validation you need.


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Subject: [wix-users] rejecting unknown properties supplied on command line

is there a neat way to catch and reject invalid command line properties?
(e.g. "PROPERTY" supplied thus: "msiexec /i mystuff.msi
PROPERTY=shouldberejected"
- I don't mean rejecting invalid values, but rejecting based on the
property name not being in a specific acceptable set

thanks
Alan

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