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Managed custom actions in Wix 3

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Andreas Ringdal Managed custom actions in Wix 3 - I have attempted to use custom actions in wix3 created using Visual Studio 2005 and WIX 3 The error message appears... Loading...

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Holmgren Mathias And BTW, this topic is obviously an old beaten... Loading...

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greenaj I have head people preach dillegently about the evil of managed custom actions. Let me just say a few things. Often... Loading...

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Richard-45 In article <20080429140030.H1NTM.5087.imail@fed1rmwml32>, <greenaj@...> writes: > I have head people... Loading...

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Rob Mensching-2 Note that in my blog entry... Loading...

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chrpai Provided they can get past their strategic decision, perhaps the MSI team should talk to the Silverlight team. They... Loading...

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Brian Rogers Yes, this is only one of many things that would be a much needed and appreciated change. Installations are becoming... Loading...

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greenaj I think there may be differences between having managed custom action support in Wix versus inventing your own way to... Loading...

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Krause, Henning Hi, > I think there may be differences between having managed custom action > support in Wix versus inventing your... Loading...

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Rob Mensching-2 I read through that blog entry but I saw the comment about "a cleaner approach is to call the custom action in a... Loading...

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Krause, Henning Hi Rob, > I read through that blog entry but I saw the comment about "a cleaner > approach is to call the custom... Loading...

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chrpai Sure, vendor specific `standard custom actions` should be native because not everyone using them use managed code. ... Loading...

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Rob Mensching-2 Brian, all very good questions for the Windows Installer team. <smile/> From:... Loading...

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chrpai Really? Have you polled every single Windows Installer Expert out there or are you taking the opinion of a few employees... Loading...

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Andreas Ringdal I finally managed to get it to work, anyone that wants a copy of the working Visual studio 2005 solution with hello... Loading...

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Holmgren Mathias AFAIK, MSI can not call your managed code directly and there is no supported way to easily call into custom actions... Loading...

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Andreas Ringdal When attempting to use your sample I get these errors ICE79: Component 'Executable' referenced in... Loading...

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greenaj I am doing something similar, but in Wix. I had to write the "CoCreateObjectDotNet()" stuff myself. I'll bet the... Loading...

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chrpai InstallShield creates a DLL with a bunch of exported functions like m1,m2,m3...... Then there is table data that the... Loading...

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greenaj I don't feel so bad about my managed CA when I hear about InstallShield supporting them. Thanks for the quote, I read... Loading...