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Chapter 8: Organizing Files for Your Installation
Including Files and Folders
The Setup Type dialog is not included in the run time of the installation; therefore, end users cannot
selectively install only parts of your product.
Accessing the Setup Type at Run Time
The _IsSetupTypeMin property stores the setup type that the end user selects in the Setup Type dialog.
Task To access the selected setup type during the run time of an installation, do one of the following:
• Use the Windows Installer MsiGetProperty function in a new DLL custom action.
• Use the following VBScript code:
' Get the value of the setup type selected
Dim sSetupType
sSetupType= Session.Property("_IsSetupTypeMin")
' Show it.
MsgBox sSetupType
The _IsSetupTypeMin property contains only the default setup type names—Typical, Minimal, and
Custom. If you rename Minimal in the Setup Types view to MySetupType and the end user selects the
renamed setup type, _IsSetupTypeMin will contain Minimal and not MySetupType.
Including Files and Folders
Your files, the core of your product, are also the core of your installation. When you add a file to your
project, you must select which feature with which it is associated. Features are what end users see when
they run your installation and select the Custom setup type. If the feature is selected for installation, the
feature’s files are installed to the target system.
You can add files to your project in the Files view.
Files Explorer
The Files view contains a file explorer that allows you to drag and drop files from folders on your source
machine to folders on the destination machine. The two left panes in the files explorer contain folders
and the two right panes display the files located within those folders.
Source Computer’s Folders (Top Left)
The Source computer’s folders pane is similar to the left pane in Windows Explorer. This pane contains
folders located either locally or on a network. From here you can navigate to the folder that contains the
files you want to add to your installation.
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