I am new to
WIX, and installations in general, and I am currently attempting
to create a custom action that calls a managed installer class. I am aware
that using managed custom actions generally appears to be frowned upon and I am
looking at options to remove the need for them in my scenario. However, my first
step is to incorporate our existing installer classes and prove that
this will work if neccessary.
I have found various
blogs that contain examples and have had no problems in calling the
custom actions for install, commit and uninstall. My problem is with
rollback, in that if an exception is thrown from my installer class
the custom action created to handle the rollback is not called, even
though the install is not successful. My custom actions are defined as
follows:
<
Binary Id="InstallUtil" src="C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtilLib.dll" /><CustomAction Id='Uninstall' BinaryKey='InstallUtil' DllEntry='ManagedInstall' Execute='deferred' />
<CustomAction Id='UninstallSetProp' Property='Uninstall' Value=' /installtype=notransaction /action="" /LogFile=
"[#InstallerDll]" "[#ConfigFile]"' />
<CustomAction Id='Install' BinaryKey='InstallUtil' DllEntry='ManagedInstall' Execute='deferred' />
<CustomAction Id='InstallSetProp' Property='Install' Value=' /installtype=notransaction /action="" /LogFile=
"[#InstallerDll]" "[#ConfigFile]"' />
<CustomAction Id='Rollback' BinaryKey='InstallUtil' DllEntry='ManagedInstall' Execute='rollback' />
<CustomAction Id='RollbackSetProp' Property='Rollback' Value=' /installtype=notransaction /action="" /LogFile=
"[#InstallerDll]" "[#ConfigFile]"' />
<CustomAction Id='Commit' BinaryKey='InstallUtil' DllEntry='ManagedInstall' Execute='commit' />
<CustomAction Id='CommitSetProp' Property='Commit' Value=' /installtype=notransaction /action="" /LogFile=
"[#InstallerDll]" "[#ConfigFile]"' />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="InstallSetProp" After="StartServices">$MainComponent>2</Custom><Custom Action="Install" After="InstallSetProp">$MainComponent>2</Custom><Custom Action="UninstallSetProp" After="MsiUnpublishAssemblies">$MainComponent=2</Custom><Custom Action="Uninstall" After="UninstallSetProp">$MainComponent=2</Custom><Custom Action="CommitSetProp" After="Install">$MainComponent>2</Custom><Custom Action="Commit" After="CommitSetProp">$MainComponent>2</Custom><Custom Action="RollbackSetProp" After="Install">$MainComponent>2</Custom><Custom Action="Rollback" After="RollbackSetProp">$MainComponent>2</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
I would appreciate
any help in trying to understand what I am doing
wrong.
Thanks
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