ISWiChainPackageDatas Collection

InstallShield 2025 » Automation Interface

Project: This information applies to the following project types:

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Basic MSI

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InstallScript MSI

Contains collection of data pertaining to all chained.msi packages in the current project

Members

ISWiChainPackageDatas Collection Members
Name	Type	Description
Count	Read-Only Property	Use this property to return the total number of elements in the ISWiChainPackageDatas collection.
Item	Read-Only Property	Provide the index number or name of the chained.msi package in order to retrieve the ISWiChainPackageData Object. The name of the chained.msi package is case-sensitive—“Chain Package One” and “Chain Package one” are two different configurations. Item is the default property for ISWiChainPackageDatas Ccollection, which means that pProject.ISWiChainPackageDatas.Item("PackageData1") is equivalent to pProject.ISWiChainPackageDatas ("PackageData1").

Example

The VBScript example below displays that how to retrieve data pertaining to a specific chained .msi package in the project:

Set pProject = CreateObject("IswiAutoAutomation Interface Version.ISWiProject")

pProject.OpenProject "C:\MySetups\MyProject.ism", True ' open read-only

sNames = "This project contains the following:" & vbNewLine

iCount = pProject.ISWiChainPackages.Count

For i = 1 to iCount

Set pChainPackage = pProject.ISWiChainPackages.Item(i)

sNames = sNames & vbTab & pChainPackage.DisplayName & vbNewLine

sNames = sNames & vbTab & "This project chain package contains the following files and folder:" & vbNewLine

iCount2 = pChainPackage.ISWiChainPackageDatas.Count

For j = 1 to iCount2

Set pPackageData = pChainPackage.ISWiChainPackageDatas.Item(j)

sNames = sNames & vbTab & pPackageData.ISBuildSourcePath & vbNewLine

MsgBox sNames

Applies To

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