I am developing an installer using visual studio 2005, setup project. I am using an environment variable in the one of the defaultlocation propertes of one folder. But I am facing an error when I run the installer. The path looks something like [ENVIRONMENTVARIABLENAME]\foldername. When I give absolute path, installer is working fine. When I give only environmentvariable then also installer is working fine. Only when a folder name is followed by environmentvariable, I am getting an error saying "foldername" cannot be accessed on network location.
I tried with and without the backward slash between [ENVIRONMENTVARIABLENAME]\foldername
Any suggestions please?

Thanks in advance.
Murthy

The things that go in square brackets like that are Windows Installer property names, either standard ones or those that you define. You can't just put the name of a system environment variable in there.

If that really is an actual system environment variable name, you use the syntax:

[%ENVIRONMENTVARIABLENAME]

to tell Windows that this is not a MSI property name, it'san environment variable name.

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Phil Wilson

The things that go in square brackets like that are Windows Installer property names, either standard ones or those that you define. You can't just put the name of a system environment variable in there.

If that really is an actual system environment variable name, you use the syntax:

[%ENVIRONMENTVARIABLENAME]

to tell Windows that this is not a MSI property name, it'san environment variable name.

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Phil Wilson