Setup project command line arguments

I have created a Setup Project using Visual Basic .NET.
I have no problem to create an installer copying my .exe into a specific dir
ectory and also to write into registries.
BUT I don't know how can I read command line arguments.
I must absolutely read the command line arguments and use this arguments for
 my installation.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks a lot
Trinidad.

I'm not sure what you mean - the exe is a wrapper generated by Visual
Studio, and I don't know if you can pass command line arguments into it that
you can use. If you just create an MSI file, you can run it with a command
line such as:
msiexec /i <path to your msi> MYPROPERTY=something
and then the property MYPROPERTY can be referenced during the setup, in
conditions for installing files etc.
--
Phil Wilson
[Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer]
Definitive Guide to Windows Installer
http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=280

"Trinidad" <Trinidad.1iafto@mail.codecomments.com> wrote in message
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> I have created a Setup Project using Visual Basic .NET.
> I have no problem to create an installer copying my .exe into a
> specific directory and also to write into registries.
> BUT I don't know how can I read command line arguments.
> I must absolutely read the command line arguments and use this
> arguments for my installation.
>
> Does anyone have an idea?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Trinidad.
>
>
>
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> Trinidad
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The problem is my Setup.exe will be called from another existing application
.
This application will call "Setup.exe param1" and I cannot change the way th
is application will call my Setup.exe.

I will like to know if there is a way to read this entry parameter (param1) 
into my Setup program. 
Is there something I can change with a Custom Action?

The only solution I have found until know is to use an intermediary project 
that will analyze the command line parameter and save it into a registry. Th
en this project calls the Setup.exe without parameters.
Into the Setup project I add a Custom Action reading the parameter stored in
to the registry and then making the needed actions.
Do you think this is a good and only solution?

Thank you very much for your help

Trinidad Martinez.

TO get command line arguments in .net use the command function

This example uses the Command function to return the command-line arguments 
in an object containing an array.

Function GetCommandLineArgs() As String()
   ' Declare variables.
   Dim separators As String = " "
   Dim commands As String = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Command()
   Dim args() As String = commands.Split(separators.ToCharArray)
   Return args
End Function