Re: [WiX-users] Bundle Variable Persisted attribute

[Rob M. <ro...@ro...>]

Variable/@Persisted makes the "Remember Property Pattern" (
http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/5/2/The-WiX-toolsets-Remember-Property-pattern)
unnecessary for a single Bundle. What you want is the related Bundle
solution that does not exist in Burn v3.6.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Neil Sleightholm <ne...@x2...>wrote:

> So is that other executions of the same installation e.g. on repair or
> uninstall?
>
> What I was after was a way of saving the install folder if someone changes
> it so that when they upgrade it installs to the same folder - will I have
> to do that in the MSI and read the value back in the bundle?
>
> Neil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:ro...@ro...]
> Sent: 10 July 2012 08:21
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle Variable Persisted attribute
>
> It persists the Variable for future executions of the Bundle. It is not
> currently possible to access persisted Variables for other Bundles
> (although I believe there is a bug open to add the functionality for
> related Bundles).
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Neil Sleightholm <ne...@x2...
> >wrote:
>
> > What does the bundle Variable/@Persisted attribute do? I would have
> > expected it to store the value somewhere so it can be re-read the next
> > time the application is installed but there doesn't seem to be any
> > documentation on how to do that.
> >
> > Neil
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