Re: [WiX-users] Cannot execute Custom Action

2011-04-01 Thread Christopher Painter
I just came across this error today when upgrading a WiX 3.0 C++ project that someone wrote to WiX 3.5. The kicker is neither 3.0 nor 3.5 ( on an upgrade or new project creation ) project wizards generate the resource file for you and there's no build warning either. It just blows up at runtime.

Re: [WiX-users] Cannot execute Custom Action

2010-12-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Your CA DLL needs a version resource. On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Wang, Miaohsi wrote: > Dear All, > > I created an empty C++ custom action (a CA that does nothing) in VS2008 > using its C++ CA dll template and tried to call the CA from a WiX 3.5 > install program. I got the error below reco

[WiX-users] Cannot execute Custom Action

2010-12-23 Thread Wang, Miaohsi
Dear All, I created an empty C++ custom action (a CA that does nothing) in VS2008 using its C++ CA dll template and tried to call the CA from a WiX 3.5 install program. I got the error below recorded in the install log file during the install: CustomAction1: Error 0x80070715: Failed to get fi