Wix: Set semicolon to CustomActionData

Question

I have a problem with setting data that contains semicolons to CustomActionData property. By default CustomActionData class uses semicolon as DataSeparator and it breaks my

Answer 1

Back in 2006 I wrote a blog article and sample project:

InstallScript, meet CustomActionData

Basically I used the pattern: /KEY1=VALUE1 /KEY2=VALUE2

The library worked by calling a lookup function passing it "/KEY1=". It then returned all data until the end of until the next " /".

Regardless I don't really use this much any more since I've moved onto C# DTF which has a CustomActionData class handles the derialization/deserialization for me.