Thanks for the help and example snippet Chris, the explanation makes
perfect sense and works like a charm. I tried going the dark route, but
our IS generated MSI files make dark throw exceptions.
Paul
________________________________
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 10:00 PM
To: Paul McCloskey; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running an executable in the binary table
A type 3074 is just a Type 2 EXE CA stored in the binary table with the
msidbCustomActionTypeInScript + msidbCustomActionTypeNoImpersonate
attributes set. This means it's a deferred CA that runs as System
Context and must be sequenced between InstallInitialize and
InstallFinalize.
You could dark an InstallShield built MSI to get some XML to look at or
you could dig through sparse schema documentation or you could use a
tool like WiXAware to help you out. That's what I did ( I'm sorry...
I'm a pretty smart guy but life is too short to be writing installs
using a text editor IMO ). A sample CA snippet would look like:
<Binary Id="Notepad.exe" SourceFile="C:\windows\notepad.exe">
</Binary>
<CustomAction Id="CustomAction1" Return="check" HideTarget="no"
Execute="deferred" Impersonate="no" TerminalServerAware="no"
ExeCommand="" BinaryKey="Notepad.exe">
</CustomAction>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="CustomAction1" After="InstallInitialize" />
</InstallExecuteSequence>
Paul McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to convert an existing Installshield project to Wix
3.0. I'm having trouble getting my head around recreating a custom
action. The IS project runs an executable in the binary table as a type
3074 custom action, is there an equivalent in WIX?
Thanks.
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