My program will be installed to a path in registry, which has two different values for single user and all users.
So I'd like to have something like:
<Property Id="MYINSTALLDIR">
if single user, then <RegistrySearch Id='MyRegistry' Type='raw' Root='HKCU' Key='Software\MyApp\Foo' Name='InstallDir' />
else if ALLUSERS, then <RegistrySearch Id='MyRegistry' Type='raw' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\MyApp\Foo' Name='InstallDir' />
</Property>
Is this possible?
Perform the two registry searches to two different properties and then use a SetProperty custom action to assign one of the two properties to the real property based on which one has data and which one has a higher priority ( use conditions to drive the execution ).
Finally, it is working now...
With following snippet in wxs file, ALLUSER=1 or 2 can be passed to msiexec to enable HKLM registry search.
<Property Id="INSTALLDIR1">
<RegistrySearch Id='RegistryCU' Type='raw' Root='HKCU' Key='Software\Foo' Name='InstallDir' />
</Property>
<Property Id="INSTALLDIR2">
<RegistrySearch Id='RegistryLM' Type='raw' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Foo' Name='InstallDir' />
</Property>
<CustomAction Id="PerUserInstall" Property="InstallDir" Value="[INSTALLDIR1]" Execute="immediate" />
<CustomAction Id="PerMachineInstall" Property="InstallDir" Value="[INSTALLDIR2]" Execute="immediate" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="PerUserInstall" After="AppSearch">ALLUSERS="" OR (ALLUSERS=2 AND (NOT Privileged))</Custom>
<Custom Action="PerMachineInstall" After="AppSearch">ALLUSERS=1 OR (ALLUSERS=2 AND Privileged)</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
In my case, both HKCU and HKLM contain values and they have same priority, so the only way to do is to set property of ALLUSER in command line.
