On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 17:05:24 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 16:47:18 UTC, Jesse Phillips
wrote:
An MSI can't execute an arbitrary executable, just an
arbitrary DLL which could run an arbitrary executable :)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa368563%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
this?
Thanks, prove me wrong :)
I suppose you'd use the DLL because it has access to the MSI
database during installation while the EXE won't.
I'm doing it because I'm replacing a 3rd party DLL and want to
make sure the custom action is called correctly by our installer.