1.) session["PropertyName"] will access the property you're looking for.
2.) Call session.DoAction("ActionName", CAData)
3.) I don't know that you can. Can't you just put that in the CAData?
Chris
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:19 PM, mkk <markknut...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a few questions.
>
> 1. In my immediate custom action, how do I get the property value in DTF
> (C#).
> 2. In my immediate custom action after stuffing the CustomActionData how
> do
> I serialize it out to the name of the property of the immediate custom
> action.
> 3. In my defferred custom action, how di I get the name of the custom
> action
> that is calling into my method.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Christopher Painter wrote:
> >
> > You'll want to look at the CustomActionData class in DTF as described
> > here:
> >
> >
> http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17875.html
> >
> > In a nutshell:
> >
> > In your immeadiate custom action, you instantiate the class, stuff it
> with
> > data and then serialize it out to a property.
> >
> > In your deferred custom action you read the CustomActionData property and
> > pass it to the class constructor for deserialziation back into your class
> > with all of it's data.
> >
> > As far as how to schedule these custom actions there are several
> patterns:
> >
> > 1) 1 immeadiate to 1 deferred relationship
> > 2) 1 immeadiate to multiple deferred relationship
> > 3) 1 immeadiate that calls DoAction to schedule the deferred ( this is
> the
> > way Jason describes in the above link. )
> >
> > When using #1 or #2, remember the immeadiate must be scheduled before the
> > deferred and the name of the property(s) to be set is the name of the
> > deferred custom actions(s). This is how MSI makes the join.
> >
> > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog
> > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves
> > attention? E-Mail Me
> >
> >
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