Actually, you're a little behind on the news. Since a few months ago, WiX has included Deployment Tools Foundation which fully supports managed custom actions while solving the technical issues. See Rob's newer blog post here: http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2008/05/16/Deployment-Tools-Foundation-joins-the-WiX-toolset.aspx
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DE?K JAHN, G?bor Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 5:57 AM To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list Subject: [WiX-devs] Wix and C# On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:13:52 -0400, Joanne Paul wrote: Joanne, > but it wont show my message box when I execute the msi. Could you > please tell me what is wrong in my way of doing things. Using C# is the problem. You have to use a native Win32 DLL for a custom action, not managed .NET code. This is an ongoing debate because more and more programmers are .NET-only (which is, but this is strictly my personal opinion, a very big problem, programmers have to know several languages, including C, C++ and Pascal and similar to call themselves programmers but I digress) and .NET does offer a nice, cosy environment to do things in. Still, this is not an arbitrary limitation, it has it reasons. See http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson3.php#3.5 for a short description and a link to Rob's blog detailing the issue. Bye, G?bor ------------------------------------------------------------------- DE?K JAHN, G?bor -- Budapest, Hungary E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
