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Hi Guys,

I hope you can help me.

My project has a dialog that asks which IIS site to install to.

As my debug shows, the selected value is returned in a variable $XWEBSITE$ - the site name is correctly shown.
In my line 179, I try to resolve the name to the IIS INDEX using, but the returned value is 0


What am I missing?



Best regards
Bo Andersen

Dear Bo,

Honestly, I used the code below and works fine for me.
The command correctly return the Site Index for the given web site.
Obviously, I have created a test Web Site named "MyTestWeb" before to run the code below.



Regards

Hi Francesco,

I can recreate the problem in the sample IIS project.

The get IIS Index returns 0 if the site name comes from a listbox rather than a combobox.

Here's what I did:

openend the


Edit the "Wizard" dialog
Add a listbox, populate from $SITELIST$, write to variable WS2
declare variable WS2 same place as WEBSITE is declared


Create watch for WS2 and WEBSITE
Copy line where website name is resolved to IDX


create debug build and debug.
Value of WS2 is "Def12"
Value of WEBSITE is "Def12"
(according to watch list)
Get IIS Index for Site "$WEBSITE$" into WEBSITEINDEXVAR
-returns 2

Get IIS Index for Site "$WS2$" into WIX
-returns 0

Now, I know that I can just use a combobox instead of a list box, but why?

Best regards

Bo

Dear Bo,

could you please send me the test project you used?

... I know, I can reproduce the same using the code you posted, but if you post it I will save some time .

Many thanks for your cooperation.

Regards

Here you go

Best regards
Bo

Thank you Bo!

I will be back as soon as possible.

Regards.

Dear Bo,

You found this behaviour because the value returned by the ListBox selection, contains an extra "space" character at the end of the string.
I have removed it and the "Get IIS Index" command now returns the correct index.

Please have a look at the attached project, I have added some messageboxes to display the variables value at runtimes.

Regards