InstallAware

I have Installaware 2012 Admin edition I'm trying to write the following:

Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;User ID="";Data Source=\\server1\vol3$\databases\mbs\new_mbs\mdb.mdb;Persist Security Info=False;Jet OLEDB:Database Password="xxxxxxx"

as a string registry data value.

The problem is Installaware is converting the double backslash to a single so is writing:

Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;User ID="";Data Source=\server1\vol3$\databases\mbs\new_mbs\mdb.mdb;Persist Security Info=False;Jet OLEDB:Database Password="xxxxxxx"

I've tried all sorts of things, it has something to do with the dollar symbol. The only way I could get it to function was use "\\\\\\" instead of "\\" but that seems a hack. I have successfully written other registry value where a double backslash is present.

Is there anyway to escape the dollar sign (I've even tried using a variable $DOLLAR$ to represent a $ but that still fails)

Any suggestions please.

Dear User,

honestly, I just tried the following code ... and it works fine.

Write Registry Key HKCU\Software\myproduct\Test, \\server\mypath
Set Variable MYVALUE to \\server\mypath
Write Registry Key HKCU\Software\myproductTwo\Test, $MYVALUE$



Regards

Thanks for trying and the reply, but your example doesn't use the data that I mentioned caused a problem, also I have a further issue that I set registry entry as permanent and when I did a installer repair the registry items disappeared. So given up on installaware for this functionality and as I find increasing the case with software I'm doing it myself using a dll.

Dear Mark,

I am not able to replicate the same ... if you post a minimal sample project I'll verify it.

Regards