Only deferred custom actions use the CustomActionData class. Immeadiate Custom Actions can access properties directly:
var installLocation = session["INSTALLLOCATION"]; Here is what I consider `required` reading on the subject: http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/isnews/200108/index.htm ---------------------------------------- From: "k.koteswararao" <k...@metricasystems.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:58 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] help: Parameters are not passing to custom actions when push button clicked? Hi every one, Aim trying to execute c# custom actions but problem is parameters are not passing to code. Here my code <Binary Id="myAction" SourceFile="MyCustomAction1.CA.dll" /> <CustomAction Id="SetCustomActionDataValue" Return="check" Property="myActionId" Value="INSTALLLOCATION=[ProductName];AnotherValue='Just a value'" /> <CustomAction Id="myActionId" BinaryKey="myAction" DllEntry="MySimpleAction" Return="ignore" Execute="immediate" /> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="SetCustomActionDataValue" Before="myActionId" >NOT Installed</Custom> <Custom Action="myActionId" Before="InstallFinalize">NOT Installed</Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence> Form UI iam calling the custom action code Here the code <Control Id="btnCheckConnection" Type="PushButton" Height="17" Width="56" X="304" Y="213" Text="Test"> <Publish Event='DoAction' Value='myActionId' Order="1" >1</Publish> </Control> My C#code [CustomAction] public static ActionResult MySimpleAction(Session session) { try { session.Message(InstallMessage.Warning, new Record(new string[] { string.Format("INSTALLLOCATION{0}", session.CustomActionData["INSTALLLOCATION"]) })); session.Message(InstallMessage.Warning, new Record(new string[] { string.Format("Another Value{0}", session.CustomActionData["AnotherValue"]) })); //MessageBox.Show(Pid); } catch (Exception exception) { session.Log(exception.ToString()); return ActionResult.Failure; } finally { } return ActionResult.Success; } Any wrong that code? Thanks Pallapothu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
