I have some DTF custom actions to update files which are not owned by my
product (e.g. machine.config). The best practice when updating files during
installation on Vista+ systems is to integrate with the restart manager to
detect files in use, otherwise random failures can occur while reading/writing
(I've actually seen this happen a few times while using my old InstallUtil
custom actions).
Although it's not required, it would be nice if there were more of an
"integrated" story within DTF. I have written the P/Invoke code to do it for
my custom actions and it's not that bad. The only methods I needed were
RmJoinSession, RmRegisterResources, and RmEndSession. (They don't even need to
be remoted, since you don't need to talk through the installer session to
access the restart manager.)
I figure that others could benefit from having this functionality available as
a first class part of DTF, so maybe we can talk about what this would look like
in the general case.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ginchereau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 10:44 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF and the Restart Manager
No specific plans, but I'm open to the idea. Can you provide more details? For
what unmanaged APIs would you want to see a managed object model in DTF? In
what scenarios would you use them?
-Jason-
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 2:10 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] DTF and the Restart Manager
Are there any plans to add integration with the Restart Manager in DTF?
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