RE: Vista Setup Project - Rights Issue

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Hello Jeff,

Jacky is right (thanks for sharing, Jacky). And let me share some more
detailed information with you.

In Windows Installer, we must make sure that the characters following a #
in a registry value are numeric. In your case, the value you set in the
Setup Project should be something like "##8:30:00 AM#". Note the double #,
that means the following characters don't have to be numeric.

There are tools that can be used to validate your MSI file before sending
it to deployment. As Jacky mentioned, Orca is one of the tools and it is
free for download from Microsoft website.

In case you need it, you can find it (contained in Windows Installer SDK)
here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6A35AC14-2626-4846-
BB51-DDCE49D6FFB6&displaylang=en

After installing the Windows SDK, you can find Orca.msi from the SDK's
Tools folder. Then you need to install orca.msi.

After installing orca.msi, you can find Orca in your start menu.

Then you can consider the following steps to validate your MSI file:

1. Open your own MSI file with Orca.
2. From Tools menu, choose Validate
3. In the Validation Output dialog, click the Go button.
4. Wait for the validation process to finish.

When the validation process is finished, you may see the following error
message:
ICE70 INFO ICE70 - Checks that the characters following a # in a registry
value are numeric
ICE70 INFO Created 07/14/1999. Last Modified 07/21/1999.
ICE70 ERROR The value '#8:30:00 AM#' is an invalid numeric value for
registry entry _XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. If you meant to use a
string, then the string value entry must be preceded by ## not #.

So, all we have to do is close Orca, back to Visual Studio, change the
value from #8:30:00 AM# to ##8:30:00 AM#, and recompile.

For more information on ICE70, you may want to read the following documents:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369020(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369206(VS.85).aspx

And for ICEs (Internal Consistency Evaluators), here is the link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369554(VS.85).aspx

Please kindly let us know if this works for you.

Regards,

Jie Wang (jiewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, remove 'online.')

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