Comments on: How to avoid hardcoding file paths within CAB file registry settings

By: Anu

Anu — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:25:51 +0000

Thanks a Lot. This was helpful !

By: Christopher Fairbairn

Christopher Fairbairn — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:00:41 +0000

Hi Fahmi,

The root directory of the device will always be \, so no macro is needed to safely cope with localised devices. You should be able to hardcode your path as \.

Hope this helps,
Christopher Fairbairn

By: Fahmi

Fahmi — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:29:10 +0000

Hallo

do you know how to set Root Directory for the Destination? I can’t find any macro Strings for Root Directory

Thank you in advance
Fahmi

By: Christopher Fairbairn

Christopher Fairbairn — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:08:36 +0000

Raffaele Limosani has blogged about another limitation you might run up against while creating CAB files using Visual Studio that causes the same "xyz.inf contains DirIDs, which are not supported" error message. You can find the details and a suggested work around in his blog entry.

By: Christopher Fairbairn

Christopher Fairbairn — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:57:25 +0000

The string escaping trick is also required for strings which contain embedded quote mark (”) characters.

In this case the IDE/cabwiz.exe is even more silent about the potential problem. If you specify a registry value that contains a single ” character it will silently be removed from the string.

test.exe “my app”

turns into

test.exe my app

In order to get the string you want, you need to specify:

test.exe “”my app”"

Notice the double up of the quote marks?