Dear all,

 

I read robmen's article on managed custom actions. I have an installer type
activity to execute that I must do during installation (installing
performance counters). You need to be admin to do that, so I have to run it
within the installation.

 

We want to execute the InstallPerfCounters.exe with a CA, which works easily
with a CustomAction. Unfortunately you don't get any feedback except success
and failure. I'd like InstallPerfCounters.exe to log back.

 

So I thought of a simple solution: implement a C++ custom action that spawns
InstallPerfCounters.exe, hooks up to its stdout and logs all lines into the
MSI log using the MSI API. Thus anything that InstallPerfCounters.exe
outputs will appear in the log.

 

Has anyone done something like this? Is this a good/bad/crazy idea?

 

Thx

dB.

 

Daniel Doubrovkine (dB.)

Development Manager & Lead Architect
Application Security Inc.

appsecinc.com <http://www.appsecinc.com/> 

 

 

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