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Writing Property Values to the Registry

InstallShield 2015

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For Windows Installer–based projects, you can use Windows Installer properties in registry values to store information for later use by your product. At run time, Windows Installer automatically expands expressions of the form [PropertyName] in registry data to the value of the property called PropertyName. Any property defined in the Property Manager view can be used in this way.

For example, if you would like to store the destination location of your software, create a registry value whose data is [INSTALLDIR]. At run time, when your installation creates the registry value, the data for that registry value is set to the location where your application is installed.

You can use the same format for registry key names and value names. For example, if you want a key name to be the name of your company, enter [Manufacturer] for the name of the key. When the registry key is created on the target system, the name of this key will be the value of the Publisher setting, as entered in the General Information view.

See Also

Special Considerations for Searching the Registry at Run Time

Registry View

Property Manager View

RegDBSetKeyValueEx