Why does it have to be a lot of work? The need to have resources available
during installation time is a very, very, very common story. Using other
setup authoring programs you simply right click | insert files into the Support
Files treeview and at runtime you can access them using [SUPPORTDIR] or
deserialize[CustomActionData] as approriate. If you have a .NET class you
want to call, you simply call CoCreateObjectDotNet() to instantiate it and then
fire off into your method.
"Kiran Subhedar (Sogeti)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks again Blair! Thats a very nice idea. Can you point me
to some code or site which can get me started?
Also I had another way (as explained in this link:
http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2006/12/managed-code-can-access-msihandle_10.html
), using which a C++ CA will pass the MSI handle to the managed CA. In this
way the managed CA could access Binary table and execute the files. But this
means a lot of work as I need to host the CLR, then create the app domain, then
load and execute the assemblies. This indeed means a lot of work.
I liked you approach so I will give it a try.
Thanks again!
Kiran
From: Blair Murri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 7:19 PM
To: Kiran Subhedar (Sogeti)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: Need assistance!
What I have seen others use is a C++ DLL CustomAction that extracts all
needed files from the Binary table to the %TEMP% directory, leaving them there,
and the deferred CAs then use/consume those files using the TEMP environment
variable to find them. If you really shouldnt leave the files around, you
could add a rollback/commit CA that erases them from the %TEMP% folder.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiran
Subhedar (Sogeti)
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 7:07 PM
To: Blair Murri
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Need assistance!
Thanks Blair! I could not use a Binary table since the executables executing
in-turn depend on one or other files. Moreover these are console applications
so they will show a pop-up when the CA is executed. Also the CAs are deferred
actions. So I think a Binary table wouldnt come to my rescue.
Thanks,
Kiran
From: Blair Murri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:37 PM
To: Kiran Subhedar (Sogeti)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: Need assistance!
You could try using the Binary table instead of the File table to store the
support files. You would need to extract then yourself in a custom action, but
it could be the same custom action if that CA is not deferred.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiran
Subhedar (Sogeti)
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:31 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Need assistance!
Hi,
I am having an issue over here. I am using a custom action which uses some
support files. The action is required to run both in installation and
un-installation phases. But the support files needs to be removed after
installation. That means I will require these files again during
un-installation. How can I remove files after installation and again
install\remove them after un-installation? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kiran
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