As you can see I'm a new user that is already facing some problems while trying to understand how this great tool works. My main problem might not be a big issue for experienced users, but as a newbie I am really having a bad time while trying to make the files of one of my project's components (e.g. "Repository") be copied to a custom folder (e.g. "C:\Repository"), that can be changed by the end-user. What's the best way to do that? While in design-time? Run-time? Can I set a property, path variable or something? How can I use it?
Any ideas will be very appreciated. Thank you so very much!
The easiest way would be to create another feature and move that component to it. Then at runtime they can select a different location for that feature. For the desitnation set some default path (don't use INSTALLDIR since your other features may use it).
OK, after hours of research, I found out that it is possible to, in the "Files and Folders" view, right-click the "Destination Computer" icon, create a "New Folder" and name it, say, "C:" and then create the directory tree I want. But it's still a design-time and hard-coded solution. How can I let the user enter the path and create it at run-time? Any directions to solve that? Thanks a lot.
