Hi, Thanks for your reply.
Creating a registry entry is just an example. My question is, if suppose I have a custom action which is an "immediate" custom action and if I want to add a rollback for that custom action, how do I add it and what is the correct sequence for that? Thanks, Sneha diwakar09 wrote: > > Hi, > I didn't understand your question, > What i have understood is- you want to write to registry and you want to > delete that value from registry, > > If you want to write to registry > Try this > <Registry Action="createKeyAndRemoveKeyOnUninstall" Id="name_application" > Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Application_name\version"> > <Registry Action="write" Value="[INSTALLDIR]" > Type="string" /> > </Registry> > > And on uninstallation it will automatically remove it from the registry, > > > Sneha Gharpure wrote: >> >> I have a custom action writeToRegistry and after this action if the user >> presses cancel, the corresponding value should be deleted from the >> registry. >> >> Following is the sample code showing how we have implemented it. >> >> WriteToRegistry -> writes a value to a registry >> DeleteFromRegistry -> deletes a value from registry >> These two are VB scripts that read/write the values from/to the registry. >> >> <CustomAction Id='WriteToRegistry' BinaryKey='keyname' >> VBScriptCall='WriteToRegistry' Execute="immediate" /> >> <CustomAction Id='WriteToRegistry_Rollback' BinaryKey='keyname' >> VBScriptCall='DeleteFromRegistry' Execute="rollback" /> >> >> 6402 is the sequence number after "publish product" >> the "WriteToRegistry" action is called only during the installation and >> therefore the condition " Not >> Installed". I am not sure about the condition for >> "WriteToRegistry_Rollback". I have tried both- "Installed" and "Not >> Installed" >> >> <Custom Action="WriteToRegistry" Sequence="6402"> >> Not Installed >> </Custom> >> <Custom Action="WriteToRegistry_Rollback" Before="WriteToRegistry"> >> Installed >> </Custom> >> >> The problem here is that the Roll back custom action is not getting >> called when the user presses "cancel" after executing the >> "WriteToRegistry" action. I think that the problem is due to improper >> sequencing of these custom actions. >> >> Can anyone give any pointer? >> >> Thanks in Advance, >> Sneha >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Custom-Action-Rollback-Implementation-tp14948042p14949459.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
