You really do learn something new everyday. I have been using Wise script for a number of years and have managed to do some neat things the product was probably never intended for. I did not know that it could so easily interface with VBScript. In case this is new to you as well I have created a sample Wise Script and VBScript. In this example Wise passes VBscript a date that VBScript passes back to Wise in a pretty formatted style. You can use this to read in WMI variables and other things as well that your install package may need.
- P.S. In one scenario where I was doing process counting using this method, I called the vbscript in a loop within Wise. The WiseScript completed but threw some kind of error which caused my debugger to pop-up. That's no good. May be a bug...or it may have just been me.
Here is the sample: http://installsolutions.net/Community/files/folders/wisescripts/entry19.aspx