Deferred custom actions have limited access to properties. MSI SDK details
this.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Karen Mattox <karenmat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply Rob. It appears to have something to do with
> the custom action being deferred, even calling MsiSetProperty returns the
> INVALID_HANDLE value. This dll method does a lot of things with installed
> files, and it uses CustomActionData retrieved with WcaGetProperty to
> retrieve the results of earlier logic from other dll methods. This all
> works fine, only the call to WcaSetProperty (which I am using to save some
> specific installation status for future reference by yet another dll
> method) does not work. It actually looks like hInstall is not valid by this
> time (after InstallFiles)? When I tried making the CA immediate (just for
> grins), the WcaGetProperty immediately stopped working. Is there no way to
> call WcaGetProperty and WcaSetProperty in the same dll method? Should that
> CA be deferred or immediate?
> Thanks!
>
>
> On 8/21/2013 4:56 PM, Rob Mensching wrote:
>
> Code fore WcaSetProperty() is in src\ca\wcautil\wcawrap.cpp. Stepping
> through may show you more info about what is going awry.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Karen Mattox <karenmat...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I have an initialized (using WcaInitialize() I verified with
>> WcaIsInitialized()) method with a valid looking handle (value 44 retrieved
>> with WcaGetInstallHandle(), the same as the original hInstall that was
>> passed into the method) that fails on a WcaSetIntProperty or WcaSetProperty
>> call with Error 0x80070006: failed to set property. As best I can
>> determine, this is probably *ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE*. Which handle could
>> be invalid? I tried to set the property to a string "TRUE" and also to an
>> integer value of 1, both fail with the same error. The property was created
>> in my .wxs file with <Property Id='INSTALLSTATUS' Secure='yes'/>*.* I
>> cannot find any documentation of WcaSetProperty or WcaSetIntProperty.* *At
>> the moment I have this:
>> hr = WcaSetIntProperty(L"INSTALLSTATUS", 1);
>> but I have also tried this
>> hr = WcaSetProperty(L"INSTALLSTATUS",L"TRUE");
>> Both fail with the same error code. I have set other properties in a
>> different custom action dll without any issues. Thanks.*
>> *
>>
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