Re: setup: can the dest dir be set to a registry key value?

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Duplicate post, please try to avoid that. See vsnet.setup.
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Phil Wilson [MVP Windows Installer]
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"Owen" <ocorpening@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am writing a setup using a VS setup project, but I want to eliminate
> the destination dir panel and just prereq that the homedir is already
> set in a registry key.
>
> Is it possible (without using orca) to cause the targetDir to be the
> value in a registry key?
>
> owen


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