If you wire up an installer class CA in VDPROJ and edit the resultant MSI in
Orca you'll see that you are actually getting 2 CA's for each CA. Was is a
Type 51 CA that's setting a property with the same name as the second deferred
CA. This is the serialization of properties that the installcontext is
deserializing for you.
So for DTF, whether it's WiX or InstallShield or whatever, you need an
immeadiate CA that serializes and sets the property that will become
CustomActionData and then in your deferred CA you need to deserialize it.
The serialization looks something like this: ( shoot from hip coding, not
tested )
CustomActionData cad = new CustomActionData();
cad.Add( new KeyValuePair<"PROPA","VALUEA");
session["DeferredCustomActionName"] = cad.ToString();
The deserialization looks something like this:
CustomActionData cad = new
CustomActionData(session["CustomActionData"]);
string valuea = cad["PROPA"];
BTW, in case Jason is reading, maybe I'm missing something but the constructor
choices for the CustomActionData class could probably be a little better. The
CustomActionData property is always `CustomActionData` so maybe there should be
an overload that takes the session class as an argument and automatically gets
the CustomActionData property.
I hope that helps.
Regards,
Chris
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--- On Mon, 6/16/08, Phil H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Phil H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [WiX-users] DTF: Saving data in deffered custom action
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 6:34 PM
> I have inherited some WIX code (ie I am a newbie) and have
> moved the managed
> custom action over to DTF (which is very nice BTW).
>
> Previously the CA did something along these lines:
>
> public class MyInstaller :
> System.Configuration.Install.Installer
> {
> public override void
> Install(System.Collections.IDictionary stateSaver)
> {
> base.Install (stateSaver);
> stateSaver.Add(SS_KEY_INSTALLED_PROFILE, AddProfile());
> :
> }
>
> public override void
> Uninstall(System.Collections.IDictionary savedState)
> {
> :
> bool didInstallProfile =
> (bool)savedState[SS_KEY_INSTALLED_PROFILE];
> :
> }
> }
>
>
> Using DTF how can I store a value during the install that I
> can retrieve in
> the uninstall? Note that I am using a deferred custom
> action so the Database
> etc properties of the DTF Session object aren't
> available.
>
> Out of hope I tried session.CustomActionData but that
> doesn't seem to
> persist.
>
> TIA,
>
> Phil
>
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