Windows 7 - issues with special characters in ProductName property
Asked By vizagboy
09-Nov-09 12:42 PM
I am using VS 2005 setup and deployment project. When I try to set the
Product Name to A&B, it is failing to escape. Changing the Product Name to
A&&B fixed the display of the ProductName, but the Title on the installation
screens and the display name in Add/Remove Programs is messed up. Can someone
explain how to escape the special characters in VS2005?
For your information, if I try the same in VS 2008, it works good. However,
we cannot upgrade to VS2008 right now.
Thanks
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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo replied to vizagboy
I am not really familiar with setup and deployment projects in VS2005
but the symptoms seem like msidbControlAttributesNoPrefix is missing
from some controls that have [ProductName] in Control.Text.
If VS2005 generates an *.msi file for you, perhaps you can add the
missing attribute as a post-build step. However, if VS2005 also
wraps the *.msi in an *.exe, postprocessing becomes harder.
Wilson, Phil replied to vizagboy
I have seen this before and have not been able to fix it. The issue is that the
& is used as a keyboard shortcut indicator, just like it is in Windows UI
programming. &Next means N is the key, swallow the & and do not display it.
There should be a way, I just have not found it. Docs indicate that [\&]
should escape the & and show it properly, but alas no.
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Phil Wilson
The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590592972
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