Hello,
Writing managed custom actions is not supported. A standalone executable will
not see anything of the setup around.
I took two half ready projects and used them, to build up something that gives
you the possibility to write managed custom actions and access the current
setup from within your managed code, so you can e.g. post a return value to a
property in your setup. You can fetch the code and the samples under the
following link: http://www.forestwalk.de/?p=31 sorry, my entry is just in
German, but it's the latest link in the post you need. The source and comments
are in English though.
If you need help in using this, feel free to ask back to me.
Oliver
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rachna Khune
Sent: Sonntag, 9. September 2007 04:53
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Managed custom action return values
Hi there
My custom action is a managed exe and I am attempting to do one of the two
choices below:
1) Show the exception messages from the custom action or be able to return
some error codes which I can log
2) Change the message that pops up when the custom action fails. The
default is "There is a problem with this windows...". Is there any way of
changing this default message?
The Error attribute cannot coexist with the ExeCommand attribute in the
CustomAction element:
Current implementation:
<CustomAction Id="InstallRepository" FileKey="RepositorySetupCustomActions.exe"
ExeCommand="create123 /InstallDir:"[INSTALLLOCATION]\""
Return="check" Impersonate="no" Execute="deferred" />
Seems as if writing managed custom actions is not preferred due to messages
popping up and not having access to the MSI thread.
Thanks
Rachna
SDE Repository & Modeling Team, CSD
Microsoft
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