thanks to bokkie (who I named in the about section, thank you again) I present Hauke, thanks for mentioning me in despatches but it wasn't necessary. :) I'm glad to have helped where I could but you were far ahead in your development phase than I thought you were. Sorry if, at the time, I was teach...

Hauke, My apologies if I misunderstand your question. Unlike IA's plugins the bridge cannot help you to discover their names when your plugin is called. That is, IA's plugins let you open a pulldown and, automagically, you can see all the variables that have been defined in the MSIcode. The bridge p...

When you drag-and-drop the plugin to the MSIcode you usually display a form. The form is where you'd enter the name of the variable to return some value back to the MSIcode. In addition, the form is where you'd have pulldowns for selecting what you want the plugin to do for that call at that time wh...

Of course! :D The plugin must contain all the methods and the correct parameters because it uses the same bridge assemblies and the plugin contains appropriate methods for use during design time in the IDE; when you build the installation media and install it and uninstall it. I don't know about plu...

Do either of these highlighted project types help you?

I'm just surfacing for a moment but the index out of bounds error has sometimes been reported. I can't remember the exact problem (there may have been several that fit) but you might try searching for other "index..." errors. One thing does come to mind (hope it's not a red herring) but ha...

Add a Get Folder Location statement to your MSIcode. Select the System->System Directory item from the folder pulldown and return its value in a variable. That'll give you the information you're looking for.

Edan, Happy to read you did it using vbscript. In my plugin (c#) I use this namespace: using System.Net.NetworkInformation and I iterate through the collection using: foreach(string pa in from ni in NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces() where ni.OperationalStatus == OperationalStatus.Up select ...

Edan,

Give me a little time to recompile it and test it. For some reason, it's throwing an access violation. I'll need to do some debugging to see what's causing it. I'll come back to you hopefully tomorrow.

Ian, that's more or less the pitfall copying projects to "new" projects. I've done it myself a number of times and my butt has been bitten by an identical GUID. It's the same with plugins as well except there are more GUIDs involved.

Glad to hear you also found that a new statement worked. That was my experience as well but I figured I was doing something "wrong" and that the copy-and-paste somehow spooked it. I even consulted my ancient Dan Appleman's book on the Win32 API just to make sure that the correct parameters...

Try using $VariableName$ I don't know if you used the parentheses literally but variable names are referenced between $ symbols. Did you try displaying the value of the variable in a message box? That'll quickly confirm if the variable contains what you think it should contain. Edit: Take a look at ...

Damien, I was looking for a foolproof way of decoding the string but it seems there's nothing you can do except to try and filter quotes and commas and newlines and hope for the best (at this point, unpin the grenade and stick fingers in your ears, the idea being, if you can't hear it go bang then i...

You mean something like the following? var handle = GetDesktopWindow(); LockWindowUpdate(handle); ... LockWindowUpdate((IntPtr) 0); When I run this code the bit in the middle, the ... is where I have my code to restart the explorer. It still flashes on the monitor. My definition for the GetDesktopWi...

LockWindowUpdate? I haven't come across that one before. I'll have a look for information about it and see about adding it to the plugin. Thanks for the heads-up on it.

Edit: I have an entry for it in my copy of Dan Appleman's book on the Windows API.