custom-action

How to change installer properties in my C# custom action? To access a WiX property, such as those set with the Property element, use the Session object's indexer. Here is an example: [CustomAction] public static ActionResult CustomAction1(Session session) { string myProperty = session["MY_PROPERTY"]; return ActionResult.Success; } Setting properties is just as easy. You'll set the value by referencing the key with the name of your property. Here's an example: [CustomAction] public static ActionResult CustomAction1(Session session) { session["MY_PROPERTY"] = "abc"; return ActionResult.Success;

once again I'm stuck at a problem, that is probably easy to solve. I want to extend a setup, created with WiX, to make changes in the configuration file of the installed program. In order to do this I've created a CustomAction . To be able to change the configuration file, I need to know the (install-)location of it within my CustomAction . Therefore I try passing the INSTALLLOCATION and Filename to my CustomAction . Here lies the problem: The CustomActionData -Attribute is always empty and the setup throws an exception. My CustomAction is a C# DLL file: DemoDatumErzeugen.CA.dll . It contains

I have two custom actions, one of which I'd like to execute when my product is installed and the other when it is uninstalled. My custom action is currently called from a merge module after the "InstallFinalize", but this happens for both install and uninstall. I've tried adding the "NOT INSTALLED AND NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE" condition, but that gave me an error: Error 2762. Cannot write script record. Transaction not started. I've also tried attaching to other actions (for example, UnpublishComponents), but I can't find any that are unique to install or uninstall. How can I fix this problem?

After reading the page on SetProperty and looking at as many examples as I could find here and elsewhere, I'm still not able to get my SetProperty to work with After or Before set to one of my custom action IDs. The documentation seems very simple and straight forward on the subject (hah!), but I'm getting "Found an ActionRow with a non-existent After action: MyWonderfulCA" instead of happiness (which really is what I'm after : ) Here's a representation of what my code looks like: <CustomAction Id="MyWonderfulCA" BinaryKey="MyWonderful.dll" DllEntry="MyWonderfulCA" Execute="immediate" />

Thanks to StackOverflow I found out yesterday how to add a custom action to the Visual Studio Installer to start my program after an update. The problem I now face is that at the end of the installer the program does open but the installer never finishes until I exit my app. Is there a way to ensure the app starts only after the user clicks finish on the MSI package? Or the program starts at finish of installer but installer completes and exits? I am running Visual Studio 2010 in case it matters. After some Googling, I found out that the custom action for the Visual Studio Installer might need

I am trying to create a setup project for a Windows Service. I've followed the directions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816169 to create the setup project with no trouble. I want to be able to get a value during the installation in order to update the app.config with the user's desired settings. I added a Textboxes (A) dialog to retrieve the values. I set the Edit1Property property to "TIMETORUN", and in my Primary Output action's CustomActionData property I put in the following: /TimeToRun="[TIMETORUN]\" . So far so good. Running the setup I can retrieve the TimeToRun value from the

I have tried to create a custom action for a Visual Studio Installer project to modify the permissions for a config file. The Installer.cs is as follows: public override void Commit(IDictionary savedState) { base.Commit(savedState); // Get path of our installation (e.g. TARGETDIR) //string configPath = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Context.Parameters["AssemblyPath"]) + @"\config.xml"; string configPath = @"C:\Program Files\Blueberry\Serial Number Reservation\config.xml"; // Get a FileSecurity object that represents the current security settings. FileSecurity fSecurity = File.GetAccessControl