Wix Bootstrapper Bundle Check Directory.Exist

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I am new to wix. I want to check whether a directory exist in bundle.wxs Is it possible?

The directory could be to anywhere

Posted 25-Dec-13 11:58am

tasinsahin

Updated 26-Dec-13 7:07am

ZurdoDev

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Dec-13 0:46am

What do you want to do if it exist and what if it doesn't?
—SA

tasinsahin 26-Dec-13 9:59am

By the way, I dont want to use registry. Please dont suggest Smile | :)
The job is to create excel file in a custom action. If it fails to create, that means I need to launch my acccessdtabaseengine.exe . I try to look in that excel file from bootstrapper. Could I do that?
Or if you can suggest any other way to accomplish this.

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lavagoblin · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-17T05:23:00

Here is an example of how you might accomplish this.

XML

<chain>
  .
  <packagegroupref id="AccessDB" />
  .
</chain>

<fragment>
  <util:filesearch id="AccessDBInstalled" xmlns:util="#unknown">
                   Variable="AccessDBInstalled"
                   Path="directory\path\to\check"
                   Result="exists" />
  <packagegroup id="AccessDB">
    <exepackage id="AccessDB">
                DisplayName="Microsoft Access"
                Compressed="yes"
                Cache="no"
                PerMachine="yes"
                Permanent="yes"
                Protocol="none"
                Vital="yes"
                SourceFile="path\to\accessdatabaseengine.exe"
                InstallCommand="/quiet /norestart"
                DetectCondition="AccessDBInstalled"
                InstallCondition="(VersionNT >= v5.1 OR VersionNT64 >= v6.0) AND (NOT AccessDBInstalled)" />
  </exepackage></packagegroup>
</util:filesearch></fragment>