You are right, changing the ID to have .dll fixed the problem. The problem of course is the MSI SDK topic on the MsiEmbeddedUI table doesn't mention this a problem and r Candle/Light/Validation don't catch it.
Either way I think it's a bug in WiX because if I edit just that table in WiX it doesn't solve the problem. Only fixing the wxs does. As for the problem you were having, I actually can answer that one! :-) If you look at the C# custom action project templates in Votive you'll see they implement an msbuild task to package your *.CA.dll. This task is smart enough to auto package all non-GAC'd assemblies and project content. If you look at the WPF sample you'll see that it just has a simple postbuild call to MakeSfxCA and it's lacking the arguments to package all your other stuff up into the resultant DLL. The samples project also has a dependency on the WiX targets which is a very bad idea in my opinion. I just want to build the sample not WiX. So do what I did: Create a C# custom action project, strip it of it's classes and transport the classes from the WPF project into the newly created project. The result is the best of both worlds. :-) Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Wed, 2/18/09, Oliver Wickham <oliver.wick...@skinkers.com> wrote: > From: Oliver Wickham <oliver.wick...@skinkers.com> > Subject: RE: [WiX-users] DTF Embedded UI Problem > To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, "General discussion for Windows > Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 7:51 AM > Hi, > > When looking into using an EmbeddedUI, I did a bit of > research on the > mailing list, and remember seeing a post that suggested > that the > embedded will not work without a .dll suffix on the Id of > the EmbeddedUI > element. I have successfully used the latest WIX and a > project derived > sample last week, using and ID with .dll appended. One > thing I did > notice is that it does not seem to work if any additional > references/dependencies are added that are not present on > the target > system (e.g. .Net stuff is ok, but our companies framework > DLLs don't > work). It is strange, because the additional dependencies > work on > standard DTF custom actions, just not on the Embedded UI > stuff. I wonder > if anybody else has a clue about why this is? > > Regards, > > Olly > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Painter > [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] > Sent: 18 February 2009 12:52 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] DTF Embedded UI Problem > > In an effort to learn the new functionality, I built the > WPF sample > found in wix3-sources and tried to consume it in a product. > > > My WXS looks like this: > > <Package InstallerVersion="405" > Compressed="yes" /> > <UIRef Id="WixUI_Mondo" /> > <UI Id="Embedded"> > <EmbeddedUI Id="WPF" > SourceFile="$(var.DTF_WPF.TargetDir$(var.DTF_WPF.TargetName).CA.dll"></E > mbeddedUI> > </UI> > > I have MSI 4.5 installed on Server 2008 and my logfile > shows the > following. If I stream my dll out of MsiEmbeddedUI table > and look at it > in depends I can see that it exports InitializeEmbeddedUI, > EmbeddedUIHandler and ShutdownEmbedddUI functions. If I > put a message > box inside of the initialize method I never see my message. > > Any thoughts? > > > > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:436]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding > OriginalDatabase > property. Its value is > 'C:\tfs\Private\Demos\DTF_WPF\WixProject1\bin\Debug\WixProject1.msi'. > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:436]: Machine policy value > 'MsiDisableEmbeddedUI' is 0 > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:436]: EEUI - Running > MsiEmbeddedUI code > MSI (c) (80:04) [06:43:13:451]: Cloaking enabled. > MSI (c) (80:04) [06:43:13:451]: Attempting to enable all > disabled > privileges before calling Install on Server > MSI (c) (80:04) [06:43:13:451]: Connected to service for CA > interface. > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:514]: EEUI - Unable to load > embedded DLL > handler > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:529]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding > MSICLIENTUSESEMBEDDEDUI property. Its value is '1'. > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:529]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding > SourceDir > property. Its value is > 'C:\tfs\Private\Demos\DTF_WPF\WixProject1\bin\Debug\'. > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:529]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding > SOURCEDIR > property. Its value is > 'C:\tfs\Private\Demos\DTF_WPF\WixProject1\bin\Debug\'. > MSI (c) (80:50) [06:43:13:529]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding > VersionHandler > property. Its value is '4.05'. > === Logging started: 2/18/2009 6:43:13 === > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:529]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: > PatchPackage > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:529]: Machine policy value > 'DisableRollback' > is 0 > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:529]: User policy value > 'DisableRollback' is 0 > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:529]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding > UILevel > property. Its value is '5'. > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:529]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding > ACTION property. > Its value is 'INSTALL'. > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:529]: Doing action: INSTALL > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:529]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: > ActionText > Action 6:43:13: INSTALL. > Action start 6:43:13: INSTALL. > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:545]: UI Sequence table > 'InstallUISequence' is > present and populated. > MSI (c) (80:F4) [06:43:13:545]: Running UISequence > > > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread > that deserves > attention? 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