I found it very easy to debug a DLL CA with the debugger:
I figured the DLL in the binary table has to be extracted before the code
can be called, right? So the following seemed to work for me to debug an
error I was getting while developing the CA:
1) Use a debug version of the DLL
2) Copy the .pdb file to C:\WINDOWS\Installer (hidden/system folder) -
since it seems where the DLL gets extracted as a temp file during
installation.
3) Attach the debugger to msiexec.exe. When I tried there were three
instances running, but since my CA had 'no impersonate' it was easy, I could
pick the one running as SYSTEM rather than as the installing user.
Daryn
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to call an exe
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you can debug MSI DLLs - just not via the debugger (albeit maybe you can, as
the links below made mention of info in MSI.chm, but I believe it is meant
to be a lot of effort).
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Subject: [WiX-users] How to call an exe
I really fed up working with .dll as there is no debug available. Now I
created an .exe with the same code.
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