When an install completes successfully, the date and time and some other info needs to be written to the registry. How can a date be generated and how do you know if an install was completed successfully? (writing to the registry with wix is not a problem).
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Env variables??
Can you access environment variables like PATH etc. ??
These return the current system date and time...
You might want to access %DATE% & %TIME%
Alternately, since You are able to access the Registry, You can access the Env vars in the registry itself:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\<variable>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\<variable>
GoodLUCK!!
CVS-2600Hertz
2010-04-19 07:13:56
Interesting - but I cannot find a WIX method to read a env var - the Environment element can "create|set|remove" only. Looking at the registry entries on my machine does not show date or time entries.
MX4399
2010-04-19 08:12:13
+3
A:
What about using standard MSI properties Date and Time?
Note: Be warned that despite the documentation indicating the date will always be in the MM/DD/YYYY format, this is not in fact the case. A verbose MSI log on my system (in Australia) shows the property in DD/MM/YYYY format... e.g.:
Property(S): Date = 21/04/2010
Yan Sklyarenko
2010-04-19 11:32:29
Example usage : <RegistryValue Type="string" Name="InstalledOn" Value="[Date]"/>
MX4399
2010-04-20 17:34:40
From the MSDN doc Yan referenced it indicates "The format of the value depends upon the user's locale, and is the format obtained using GetDateFormat with the DATE_SHORTDATE option. The value of this property is set by the Windows Installer and not the package author.".
MX4399
2010-04-21 05:48:41