Hi I have 2 setup projects for my product and one installer class. I am trying to find a customactiondata property to use in order to detect which setup is being run. For example in my code I want to say: If the property value is setup1.msi then do this.... else if property value is setup2.msi then do this ......

I have not been able to find the right property yet - any help will be appreciated, thanks.

Yes that's the same as well. I've been looking at all properties here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370905(VS.85).aspx

The nearest I've come to is/originaldb="[OriginalDatabase]" and using it in my code like this:

protected override void OnBeforeInstall(IDictionary savedState)
{
base.OnBeforeInstall(savedState);
StringDictionary myStringInput = this.Context.Parameters;
if (myStringInput != null)
{
foreach (DictionaryEntry d in myStringInput)
{
if (d.Key.ToString() == "OriginalDB")
{
if (d.Value.ToString().Contains("Setup1"))
{
}
}
}
}
}

You could pass [ProductName] - that's the name of the product from the setup project's property pages.

Since you have two different setups, I don't see why your first setup project can't just pass /setup=setup1 and the other one pass /setup=setup2 because that's in the CustomActionData in each setup project, then your installer class can just get the value of the "setup" dictionary key.

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Phil Wilson

Thank you for your reply however, the ProductName property is the same for each Setup.

Also, I cannot use your second proposed solution as I am using a merge module that has the customactiondata and then using the primary output of the merge module in each setup.

How about the [ProductVersion] property? Is that the same too?

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Phil Wilson

Yes that's the same as well. I've been looking at all properties here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370905(VS.85).aspx

The nearest I've come to is/originaldb="[OriginalDatabase]" and using it in my code like this:

protected override void OnBeforeInstall(IDictionary savedState)
{
base.OnBeforeInstall(savedState);
StringDictionary myStringInput = this.Context.Parameters;
if (myStringInput != null)
{
foreach (DictionaryEntry d in myStringInput)
{
if (d.Key.ToString() == "OriginalDB")
{
if (d.Value.ToString().Contains("Setup1"))
{
}
}
}
}
}