Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
I have a few questions. 1. In my immediate custom action, how do I get the property value in DTF (C#). 2. In my immediate custom action after stuffing the CustomActionData how do I serialize it out to the name of the property of the immediate custom action. 3. In my defferred custom action, how di I get the name of the custom action that is calling into my method. Thanks Christopher Painter wrote: You'll want to look at the CustomActionData class in DTF as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17875.html In a nutshell: In your immeadiate custom action, you instantiate the class, stuff it with data and then serialize it out to a property. In your deferred custom action you read the CustomActionData property and pass it to the class constructor for deserialziation back into your class with all of it's data. As far as how to schedule these custom actions there are several patterns: 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is the way Jason describes in the above link. ) When using #1 or #2, remember the immeadiate must be scheduled before the deferred and the name of the property(s) to be set is the name of the deferred custom actions(s). This is how MSI makes the join. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Passing-data-between-deferred-custom-actions-tp2339690p2431149.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
1.) session[PropertyName] will access the property you're looking for. 2.) Call session.DoAction(ActionName, CAData) 3.) I don't know that you can. Can't you just put that in the CAData? Chris On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:19 PM, mkk markknut...@hotmail.com wrote: I have a few questions. 1. In my immediate custom action, how do I get the property value in DTF (C#). 2. In my immediate custom action after stuffing the CustomActionData how do I serialize it out to the name of the property of the immediate custom action. 3. In my defferred custom action, how di I get the name of the custom action that is calling into my method. Thanks Christopher Painter wrote: You'll want to look at the CustomActionData class in DTF as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17875.html In a nutshell: In your immeadiate custom action, you instantiate the class, stuff it with data and then serialize it out to a property. In your deferred custom action you read the CustomActionData property and pass it to the class constructor for deserialziation back into your class with all of it's data. As far as how to schedule these custom actions there are several patterns: 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is the way Jason describes in the above link. ) When using #1 or #2, remember the immeadiate must be scheduled before the deferred and the name of the property(s) to be set is the name of the deferred custom actions(s). This is how MSI makes the join. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Passing-data-between-deferred-custom-actions-tp2339690p2431149.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
Actually, you shouldn't have to worry about that. Any semicolons in your data will be automatically escaped (doubled) and unescaped as necessary for serialization. -Original Message- From: John Nannenga [mailto:john.nanne...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:01 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions What happens when the data value you need contains what appears to be the delimiter between independent properties within the CustomActionData class? semi-colon... -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:52 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions Most of the WiX toolset CustomActions do this. Eitan Behar wrote: Does not look like fun, but it's doable ! Thanks ! Etian On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: You'll want to look at the CustomActionData class in DTF as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17875.html In a nutshell: In your immeadiate custom action, you instantiate the class, stuff it with data and then serialize it out to a property. In your deferred custom action you read the CustomActionData property and pass it to the class constructor for deserialziation back into your class with all of it's data. As far as how to schedule these custom actions there are several patterns: 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is the way Jason describes in the above link. ) When using #1 or #2, remember the immeadiate must be scheduled before the deferred and the name of the property(s) to be set is the name of the deferred custom actions(s). This is how MSI makes the join. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:47 AM DTF C# On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: What language is the CA's written in? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:40 AM Hi, Is there a proper method to pass data between deferred custom actions ? I have a bunch of chained custom actions and need to pass data between them, actually, just a boolean value telling the rest of the ca whether to continue. Thanks, Eitan -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
What happens when the data value you need contains what appears to be the delimiter between independent properties within the CustomActionData class? semi-colon... -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:52 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions Most of the WiX toolset CustomActions do this. Eitan Behar wrote: Does not look like fun, but it's doable ! Thanks ! Etian On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: You'll want to look at the CustomActionData class in DTF as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17875.html In a nutshell: In your immeadiate custom action, you instantiate the class, stuff it with data and then serialize it out to a property. In your deferred custom action you read the CustomActionData property and pass it to the class constructor for deserialziation back into your class with all of it's data. As far as how to schedule these custom actions there are several patterns: 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is the way Jason describes in the above link. ) When using #1 or #2, remember the immeadiate must be scheduled before the deferred and the name of the property(s) to be set is the name of the deferred custom actions(s). This is how MSI makes the join. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:47 AM DTF C# On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: What language is the CA's written in? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:40 AM Hi, Is there a proper method to pass data between deferred custom actions ? I have a bunch of chained custom actions and need to pass data between them, actually, just a boolean value telling the rest of the ca whether to continue. Thanks, Eitan -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http
Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
Use a different delimiter; the WiX CA's use EUR. I've been tempted to use XML (just because it makes reading the logs so much easier - probably overkill for anything short of serializing .NET objects)... Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions From: John Nannenga john.nanne...@microsoft.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2/20/2009 12:01 PM What happens when the data value you need contains what appears to be the delimiter between independent properties within the CustomActionData class? semi-colon... -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:52 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions Most of the WiX toolset CustomActions do this. Eitan Behar wrote: Does not look like fun, but it's doable ! Thanks ! Etian On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: You'll want to look at the CustomActionData class in DTF as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17875.html In a nutshell: In your immeadiate custom action, you instantiate the class, stuff it with data and then serialize it out to a property. In your deferred custom action you read the CustomActionData property and pass it to the class constructor for deserialziation back into your class with all of it's data. As far as how to schedule these custom actions there are several patterns: 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is the way Jason describes in the above link. ) When using #1 or #2, remember the immeadiate must be scheduled before the deferred and the name of the property(s) to be set is the name of the deferred custom actions(s). This is how MSI makes the join. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:47 AM DTF C# On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: What language is the CA's written in? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:40 AM Hi, Is there a proper method to pass data between deferred custom actions ? I have a bunch of chained custom actions and need to pass data between them, actually, just a boolean value telling the rest of the ca whether to continue. Thanks, Eitan -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source
Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
A GUID works nicely... :) On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Thomas S. Trias tomtr...@artizan.comwrote: Use a different delimiter; the WiX CA's use EUR. I've been tempted to use XML (just because it makes reading the logs so much easier - probably overkill for anything short of serializing .NET objects)... Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions From: John Nannenga john.nanne...@microsoft.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2/20/2009 12:01 PM What happens when the data value you need contains what appears to be the delimiter between independent properties within the CustomActionData class? semi-colon... -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:52 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions Most of the WiX toolset CustomActions do this. Eitan Behar wrote: Does not look like fun, but it's doable ! Thanks ! Etian On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: You'll want to look at the CustomActionData class in DTF as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17875.html In a nutshell: In your immeadiate custom action, you instantiate the class, stuff it with data and then serialize it out to a property. In your deferred custom action you read the CustomActionData property and pass it to the class constructor for deserialziation back into your class with all of it's data. As far as how to schedule these custom actions there are several patterns: 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is the way Jason describes in the above link. ) When using #1 or #2, remember the immeadiate must be scheduled before the deferred and the name of the property(s) to be set is the name of the deferred custom actions(s). This is how MSI makes the join. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:47 AM DTF C# On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: What language is the CA's written in? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:40 AM Hi, Is there a proper method to pass data between deferred custom actions ? I have a bunch of chained custom actions and need to pass data between them, actually, just a boolean value telling the rest of the ca whether to continue. Thanks, Eitan -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code
Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
What language is the CA's written in? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:40 AM Hi, Is there a proper method to pass data between deferred custom actions ? I have a bunch of chained custom actions and need to pass data between them, actually, just a boolean value telling the rest of the ca whether to continue. Thanks, Eitan -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
DTF C# On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: What language is the CA's written in? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:40 AM Hi, Is there a proper method to pass data between deferred custom actions ? I have a bunch of chained custom actions and need to pass data between them, actually, just a boolean value telling the rest of the ca whether to continue. Thanks, Eitan -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
You'll want to look at the CustomActionData class in DTF as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17875.html In a nutshell: In your immeadiate custom action, you instantiate the class, stuff it with data and then serialize it out to a property. In your deferred custom action you read the CustomActionData property and pass it to the class constructor for deserialziation back into your class with all of it's data. As far as how to schedule these custom actions there are several patterns: 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is the way Jason describes in the above link. ) When using #1 or #2, remember the immeadiate must be scheduled before the deferred and the name of the property(s) to be set is the name of the deferred custom actions(s). This is how MSI makes the join. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:47 AM DTF C# On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: What language is the CA's written in? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:40 AM Hi, Is there a proper method to pass data between deferred custom actions ? I have a bunch of chained custom actions and need to pass data between them, actually, just a boolean value telling the rest of the ca whether to continue. Thanks, Eitan -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
Does not look like fun, but it's doable ! Thanks ! Etian On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: You'll want to look at the CustomActionData class in DTF as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17875.html In a nutshell: In your immeadiate custom action, you instantiate the class, stuff it with data and then serialize it out to a property. In your deferred custom action you read the CustomActionData property and pass it to the class constructor for deserialziation back into your class with all of it's data. As far as how to schedule these custom actions there are several patterns: 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is the way Jason describes in the above link. ) When using #1 or #2, remember the immeadiate must be scheduled before the deferred and the name of the property(s) to be set is the name of the deferred custom actions(s). This is how MSI makes the join. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:47 AM DTF C# On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: What language is the CA's written in? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:40 AM Hi, Is there a proper method to pass data between deferred custom actions ? I have a bunch of chained custom actions and need to pass data between them, actually, just a boolean value telling the rest of the ca whether to continue. Thanks, Eitan -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions
Most of the WiX toolset CustomActions do this. Eitan Behar wrote: Does not look like fun, but it's doable ! Thanks ! Etian On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: You'll want to look at the CustomActionData class in DTF as described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17875.html In a nutshell: In your immeadiate custom action, you instantiate the class, stuff it with data and then serialize it out to a property. In your deferred custom action you read the CustomActionData property and pass it to the class constructor for deserialziation back into your class with all of it's data. As far as how to schedule these custom actions there are several patterns: 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is the way Jason describes in the above link. ) When using #1 or #2, remember the immeadiate must be scheduled before the deferred and the name of the property(s) to be set is the name of the deferred custom actions(s). This is how MSI makes the join. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:47 AM DTF C# On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com wrote: What language is the CA's written in? Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net wrote: From: Eitan Behar ei...@baconao.net Subject: [WiX-users] Passing data between deferred custom actions To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:40 AM Hi, Is there a proper method to pass data between deferred custom actions ? I have a bunch of chained custom actions and need to pass data between them, actually, just a boolean value telling the rest of the ca whether to continue. Thanks, Eitan -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise
