Determine path of installation

[niazjkhan]

How do i get the path specified by the user during the installation of the solution?

I believe the path information is stored in Windows installer directory database under TARGETDIR. Now how do i access this TARGETDIR property?

Is there any APIs for access?

[Andreas Masur]

Well...where do you need this path? From inside your application? In this case you can just get the application path itself by using 'GetModuleFileName()' as described in this FAQ (http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=231171), assuming that you are Windows...

[L.Tony]

hey
where you want to get that property???inside any DLL???

then you can use the function:

UINT variable = MsiGetProperty (MSIHANDLE, TEXT("CustomActionData"), your buffer, DWORD cchValueBuf);

dont forget to add [TARGETDIR] in the setup program's corresponding DLL's ->properties->CustomActionData