The InstallProperties registry key for the program has an InstallLocation value that stores the installation path. You can also search the registry for the installation directory. There's really not much you can do to speed this up when the base operation is so slow. Here's the comparative graph of the three commands in sequence. In each case, I copied the performance data from the Output tab and placed it in comments before the command. Here are variations of the command with filtering to get the InstallationLocation property of the CIM object. In a 30-second operation, the filtering time is negligible and well within the margin of error. CIM must be caching and dumping in the middle of the operation. Here's the performance graph from the Performance tab. Here's the performance data from the Output tab: Getting the class without any filtering takes an average 30 seconds. PS C:\> (Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Product | Where-Object Name -Like "*PowerShell*Studio*").InstallLocationĬ:\Program Files\SAPIEN Technologies, Inc\PowerShell Studio 2016\ Thanks to Liviuįor example, this command uses the Win32_Product class to get the installation directory of my current copy of PowerShell Studio 2016. The installers, potentially changing installer settings: Why-win32_product-is-bad-news. NOTE: Darren Mar-Elia ( warns not to use Win32_Product because accessing it updates You need to include the program name, but you can take it from a parameter and use wildcards to hedge your bet.
The Win32_Product class returns an object that contains the path to the installation directory for a program. I used the new performance monitoring report graph in PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript to test them.
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How do you find the path to a Windows program dynamically at run time? There are a few different techniques, but they really perform differently. Reliable techniques for finding the installation directory Place the path variable at the top of a script (in script scope), so it's very obvious to anyone who is maintaining the script.Get the path at run time from a reliable location.If you need to use a file path or URL in a script, here are a few guidelines: It doesn't change often and it is very unlikely to change without a version change that you can check in your script. So, instead of hard-coding a file system path, the best way to find an installation directory is to use the same technique that Windows uses. That doesn't seem like a particularly risky thing, but paths change and, in this case, we changed a path to conform to an updated Windows standard. This issue arose in a SAPIEN forum post (thanks for posting!) in which someone hard-coded the path to program that a PowerShell Studio installer file (.msi) installs. New-Variable pi -Value ::Pi -Option Constant So, wherever you can, use variables and wildcards for variable values and use constants for the few things in life that don't change, e.g. Using constants or "hard-coding" variable values is prone to error and requires continual maintenance. Under the “ Deployment” section, basically we can use it to collect all the script files and store documentation to be deploy somewhere on the network or media device.One of the important best-practice rules in scripting (and programming) is to avoid using constant values for things that can vary. Now, we have created the GUI application MSI installer which can be distributed to other machines. “ Signing” – (optional) Only if you want to sign your application solution with your signed certificate.Īfter everything under setting has been configured, proceed to “ Build” the installer. You can add more resource file with it.Ĥ. “ Files/ Folder” – This section will set where your MSI files will be stored. Notice you can chose any PowerShell version available.ģ.
Under “ Product Details” – Describes your application in details. “ Deploy | Installer” – “ Settings” – To enter all the information needed about this GUI application.Ģ. The flow to build your MSI installer would be:ġ. In our previous blog we build a GUI application and created the executable file using either the “ Build” or “ Build & Run” option under the “ Deploy | Packager” section.Īlthough, this is optional, we could have created an MSI installer which will produce all the necessary steps to deploy the GUI application.
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