[wix-users] detect windows build in bundle

Edwin Castro egcastr at gmail.com
Fri Mar 15 15:38:24 PDT 2019


Why would the CurrentBuildNumber tell you if you were executed as admin?

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Edwin G. Castro


On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:20 AM Adnan Shaheen via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> I need the build number to check if bundle is executed as admin or not. As
> in windows 2019, the reboot button doesn't work, unless bundle is opened as
> admin.
> The solution, I found in order to fetch the build number is as follows
>
> <util:RegistrySearch Id="CurrentBuild" Variable="CurrentBuildNum"
> Result="value" Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion" Value="CurrentBuildNumber" />
>
> This should fetch the build number from registry.
>
> Regards:
> Adnan Shaheen.
>
>
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 13:04, Blair Murri via wix-users <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>
> > What are you needing the build number for? Microsoft keeps telling us to
> > check for the feature's existence instead of using system version
> > information.
> >
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> > Adnan Shaheen via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2019 6:58:48 AM
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> > Cc: Adnan Shaheen
> > Subject: [wix-users] detect windows build in bundle
> >
> > How to detect windows build number in the bundle?
> > I tried CBNumber but it seems not work for me.
> >
> > Regards:
> > Adnan Shaheen.
> >
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