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BUG: ConfigurableItem Object Completely Broken

Microsoft have confirmed its a bug and am looking at it, hopefully some future version fixes it (I tested version "3.1.4000.2435").

From dbareis@newsgroup.nospam Sat Jun 17 14:37:56 2006
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi
Subject: Can't READ any values in ConfigurableItem object without trapping WSH
From: Dennis Bareis <dbareis@newsgroup.nospam>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:37:56 +1000

Hi,

This looks like a bug in Windows Installer to me but perhaps I'm wrong.

As far as I can see no setup is required to retrieve the properties...

Can anyone see anything wrong with the following (or have some example code that works):

   on error goto 0
   oMerge.OpenModule MergeModuleFullName, 0

   for each oMergeProperty in oMerge.ConfigurableItems
        wscript.echo "++++++++++++++++++"
        SomeText = oMergeProperty.Name          'This line causes WSH to trap (all properties I've tried fail)
    next

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