Roman1 wrote: http://community.flexerasoftware.com/showthread.php?171235-Backslash-forward-slash-in-targetdir Given your link, I'll assume that there is no way to do what I need without scripting. Thanks for your help anyway. Marcel ... View more

Thank you again for trying this out. I wouldn't be posting here if it was only for how VSTO add-in loading works. For some intricate reason however I need to be able to use *only forward slashes* with the Manifest-value. So - once again - my problem here is strictly InstallShield related, and has very little to do with VSTO. Say I wanted to write this entry to the registry: file:///c:/foo/boo.txt Now, I can't hardcode "c:/foo" because it's the user's choice at install time, neither can I use the more dynamic "[INSTALLDIR]" because this only gives me backslashes in Windows. So how would you go about it (without scripting or custom actions)? ... View more

Thank you for your suggestion. This is the exactly what I had in my original posting, and it definitely does not work the way I need it. After rebuilding the setup and installing the add-in the result is still (please observe the backslashes): file:///C:\Program Files\MyAddinInstalldir\MyAddIn.vsto|vstolocal I don't have problems with VSTO, but with getting the forward slashes I need. Any other ideas (w/o custom actions and scripting)? ... View more