CA's can be built to target CLR 2.0 and beyond. The dependency / fragility concerns are overblown. .NET just offers too much to be ignored.
For vendor extensions and performance sensitive (UI control event DoActions) then native is worth it. ---------------------------------------- From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:59 AM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Is using Powershell script as a Wix Custom Action a good idea? My personal point of view: write custom actions in native code, statically link the CRT and have as few dependencies on the machine as possible. Actually, best option is to have no custom actions. <smile/> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Hoover, Jacob <jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com> wrote: Which is fine as long as you don't mind the added dependency of .Net. I seem to remember some issues with newer os's not liking the standard .net installer as it is an optional feature of the OS. On Mar 11, 2013, at 9:57 PM, "Christopher Painter" <chr...@iswix.com> wrote: > Check out C# / DTF for managed custom action support instead of PowerShell. > > > I have millions of successful installations logged and failure caused by > DTF are extremely rare in WiX 3.6 / 3.7. In WiX 3.5 there was a bug that > resulted in a 1% failure rate. > > ---------------------------------------- > From: "Hoover, Jacob" <jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com> > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 8:29 PM > To: "Raghu" <raghu_ti...@yahoo.com>, "General discussion for Windows > Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Is using Powershell script as a Wix Custom Action > a good idea? > > I wouldn't, simply because some of the difficulties others have reported as > well as introducing another dependency to your installer. A simple C++ CA > DLL can be compiled for a minimal footprint and has no dependencies. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Raghu [mailto:raghu_ti...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 8:05 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Is using Powershell script as a Wix Custom Action a > good idea? > > Hello Wix users, > > I have a very simple custom action something on the lines of validating a > key as part of setup, the min requirement that the setup to run is on > Win2k8 R2+. Now I can achieve the same thing in a dll but I feel its an > overkill and is easily achieved in a script, for a while I was pondering > over using vbscript until I read the warning in > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robmen/archive/2004/05/20/136530.aspx and decided > against vbscript. Could folks point out if doing the same in powershell is > ok? > Thanks., > Raghu > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester > Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the > endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to > tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester > Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the > endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to > tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester > Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the > endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to > tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. 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