问题
I currently have a Visual Studio Deployment project for creating an MSI for my applicaiton, and I'm porting over to a WiX installer. The VS Installer used a library with Custom Install Actions that inherited from System.Configuration.Install.Installer, e.g.:
[RunInstaller(true)]
public partial class MyCustomInstaller: Installer
{
}
How do these equate to Wix actions? I figure that in general, WiX allows you to run custom actions after an install. Are these just executables? In my case, the custom Install Actions I have are classes in a DLL, not an EXE. How can I execute these from my WiX configuration?
回答1:
The Installer class based custom actions do not integrate well with the Windows Installer. The Visual Studio Setup Projects created a workaround to shoehorn them into an .MSI file but that was never the ideal situation. The WiX toolset provides true support for managed custom actions using the DTF framework.
I highly encourage you to take a look at the DTF Documentation shortcut provided with the WiX toolset. It has decent walkthroughs and I expect you'll be able to port your code pretty easily plus you'll be able to integrate far more with the Windows Installer.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16343297/porting-custom-install-actions-to-wix