WiX 3.0 does have 2-3 lines of code to implement this.
WiX 2.0 doesn't.
In WiX 3.0 I would do it thus:
<UI>
<Publish Dialog="ExitDialog" Control="Finish" Event="DoAction"
Value="LaunchApplication">WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOX = 1 AND
(Installed AND NOT REINSTALL)</Publish>
</UI>
<Property Id="WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOXTEXT" Value="Launch My
Uninstall Web Page" />
<Property Id="WixShellExecTarget" Value="http://www.iesve.com/"; />
<CustomAction Id="LaunchApplication" BinaryKey="WixCA"
DllEntry="WixShellExec" Impersonate="yes" />
Which would add a checkbox on the ExitDialog when Uninstalling allowing
the user to choose whether to see your web page or not. If you wanted to
be more draconian you could force the website to show up always on
Uninstall & remove the code to show the checkbox by removing the first
Property tag & modifying the inner text of the Publish tag accordingly.
This is all thanks to the ShellExecute CustomAction which is part of the
WiXUtilExtension.dll in WiX 3.0.
In WiX 2.0 you would need to write your own CustomAction to do this. Or
alternatively use one someone else has written for you ->
http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/archive/2007/05/09/shellexec-a-tiny-tool.asp
x
You could add that application in a Binary tag so that it's embedded
inside your MSI & call it in a Type 17 CustomAction on the Finish button
using a Publish tag as above. I'm not very familiar with the WiX 2.0
stock UI's anymore but I think you'd have to do some modification of the
ExitDialog if you want to add a CheckBox to conditionally show your
webpage (as before, being draconian & always forcing it is your choice).
WiX 3.0 is by far more "complete" than WiX 2.0. I'm honestly amazed that
I struggled by using v2.0 for so long. I only upgraded to v3.0 in May
this year & have shipped 6 releases already after using v2.0 since March
2007 having shipped 12 releases, 8 of them with upgrade patches as well
as full installers in that time. I honestly would never recommend using
v2.0 when v3.0 is available.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ewart
MacLucas
Sent: 30 August 2008 00:13
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] launch webpage on uninstall
Thanks Brian I did miss that however I was looking for someone with a
sample or a tutorial rather than downloading the source code to wix and
pawing through it.
I imagined Wix 2.0 would have 2-3 lines of script to implement this, but
reading between the lines it sounds like your saying to your knowledge
wix 2.0 doesn't support the scripted launching of a url without
significantly more work?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian
Rogers
Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2008 5:32 a.m.
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] launch webpage on uninstall
Hey Ewart,
I think you are missing what I am saying. This is already in WIX 3.0.
Since it is open source you could download the code and see how they
launch a URL.
Then you just need to attach the correct conditions to the custom action
sequence. You would also need to pull the DLL from the WIX 3.0 binaries
that has the correct custom action and use that.
Thanks,
Brian Rogers
"Intelligence removes complexity." - Me
http://icumove.spaces.live.com
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Ewart MacLucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Thanks Brian. I've look at the ShellExecute link but not sure how I
> can apply that to my wix 2.0 project. Surely there must be a simple
> wix command to launch a url on uninstall, and I wondered if anyone has
> example code
for
> that?
>
> cheers
> ewart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian
> Rogers
> Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2008 6:46 p.m.
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] launch webpage on uninstall
>
> Hey Ewart,
>
> You would want to have a custom action that uses as
> ShellExecute<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762153(VS.85).a
> spx
> >co
> mmand
> to run the URL. This is part of the WIX 3.0 custom actions.
>
> If you want, you could pull the built DLL with that custom action into
your
> WIX 2.0 project.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Brian Rogers
> "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Ewart MacLucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to launch webpage when the user uninstalls my app, have
> > tried various things but no joy, does anyone have a sample or a
> > tutorial on
how
> > to
> > do this from wix 2.0?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > <!-- Launch the application -->
> >
> > <CustomAction Id="LaunchFile" FileKey="Phoenix.exe"
> > ExeCommand="JustInstalled" Return="asyncNoWait"/>
> >
> > <CustomAction Id="LaunchWebpage" ExeCommand="www.google.com"
> > Return="ignore" />
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > <!-- Launch the application immediately on close if not
uninstalling
> > -->
> >
> > <!-- Sequences -->
> >
> > <InstallExecuteSequence>
> >
> > <Custom Action="PreventDowngrading"
> > After="FindRelatedProducts">NEWPRODUCTFOUND</Custom>
> >
> > <Custom Action="LaunchFile" After="InstallFinalize">NOT
> > REMOVE="ALL"</Custom>
> >
> > <Custom Action="LaunchWebpage"
> > After="InstallFinalize">REMOVE="ALL"</Custom>
> >
> > <RemoveExistingProducts After="InstallFinalize" />
> >
> > </InstallExecuteSequence>
> >
> >
> >
> > <InstallUISequence>
> >
> > <Custom Action="PreventDowngrading"
> > After="FindRelatedProducts">NEWPRODUCTFOUND</Custom>
> >
> > </InstallUISequence>
> >
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> > ewart
>
>
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