> -----Original Message-----
> From: W. Craig Trader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:36 PM
> To: John Vottero
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Converting Setup project to WiX 3.0 project
> (Custom Actions)
>
> John Vottero wrote:
> >
> > It would be very easy to write a console app that calls the C#
> > Installer based code. Once you have that, use the WiX CAQuietExec
> > custom action to run the console app.
> >
> >
> >
[snip]
> I'm thinking that I need to use the InstallUtil.exe console-app to run
> my code (since the code expects to be run that way for the old VS
Setup
> project). Do you have any explicit examples (or pointers to examples)
> of how to use the QAQuietExec custom action? I'm still pretty new to
> WiX...
>
It's basically a two step process, set a property with the value of the
command line like this:
<CustomAction
Id="SetCreateDB"
Property="CreateDB"
Value=""[#JAMSDBAEXE]"
INSTALL/UI=[UILevel]"/>
And then execute that command line with CAQuietExec like this:
<CustomAction
Id="CreateDB"
BinaryKey="wixca"
DllEntry="CAQuietExec"
Execute="deferred"
Impersonate="yes"
Return="check"/>
You'll also have to schedule those two custom actions in the
<InstallExecuteSequence>
The hard part is getting the "Value" right in the first step.
[#JAMSDBAEXE] resolves to the full path of an executable that we just
installed. I'm not sure how you get the full path to InstallUtil, I
think with <FileSearch>.
Also, you've mentioned rolling back if the DB update fails, I'm not sure
if that's going to work or not. We treat DB updates as something that
happens *after* the installation. If our DB update fails, the DB
updates rollback but, the product install doesn't.
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