Why can’t I use WScript in my MSI Custom action?

This post gives insight why can’t we use WScript within the MSI….

http://bonemanblog.blogspot.com/2004/08/why-cant-i-use-wscript-in-my-msi.html

But how can we use values read from the custom UI screens or from the msiexec commandline?

Use Session.Property(“CustomActionData”)

Example:

Imagine you are reading values from 4 boxes, do the following

1. Create a custom action, add the .vbs file
2. Edit properties of that .vbs custom action

3. CustomActionData has your values with ; delimited
4. Below is the tiny .vbs script to realize these values, values are read from Session.Property

CuActionData = split(Session.Property(“CustomActionData”),”;”)

Msgbox CuActionData(0)

Msgbox CuActionData(1)

Msgbox CuActionData(2)

Msgbox CuActionData(3)

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