Rob Mensching just made the reply below and I don't want to hi-jack that conversation, but I would like an explanation of that that statement. Do we have control over what part of the install is elevated and if so, how?
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Roy Chastain -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 06:40 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] C# Custom Action,change some files during installation That will only work if the target file is not in a per-machine directory or you ran your entire MSI elevated (icky, icky, icky). Adr!an Serafin wrote: > Hi! > > Thank's for the response :) I need my own CA for some other things to > ;) Besides I found solution. If anyone needs it: > > <Custom Action="EditConfig" After="InstallFinalize" > Overridable="no"></Custom> > > where After="InstallFinalize" is the key ;) > > Adrian > > 2009/9/11 John Nannenga <john.nanne...@microsoft.com> > > >> You likely don't need your own CA for this, check out XmlConfig or XmlFile. >> >> Your problem here is likely that you get a FileNotFoundException or >> something similar which is due to the fact you have your CA scheduled >> to execute in the "immediate" sequence and scheduled after >> "InstallFiles" which doesn't put any files onto the machine until the "deferred" sequence. >> >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Adrian Serafin [abus...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:10 AM >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [WiX-users] C# Custom Action, change some files during >> installation >> >> Hi! >> >> I'm struggling with this for some time now... I'm trying to make my >> custom action to modify applications config.exe file but no success. >> Maybe someone can help?? >> >> <CustomAction >> Id="EditConfig" >> BinaryKey="EditConfigDLL" >> DllEntry="EditCPConfig" >> Execute="immediate" >> Return="ignore" /> >> <Binary Id="EditConfigDLL" SourceFile="ConfigEditCA.CA.dll" /> >> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="EditConfig" >> After="InstallFiles" Overridable="no"></Custom> >> </InstallExecuteSequence> >> >> And here is c# code: >> >> public static ActionResult EditCPAConfig(Session session) >> { >> string db_user = session["DB_USER"]; >> string db_password = session["DB_PASSWORD"]; >> string u_profile = "localSU"; >> >> string installdir = session["INSTALLDIR"]; >> >> System.Xml.XmlDocument xml_doc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument(); >> System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch(); >> xml_doc.Load(installdir + "Cairo.Producer.Admin.exe.config"); >> System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch(); >> System.Xml.XmlElement conf_elem = xml_doc.DocumentElement; >> System.Xml.XmlElement conn_string = >> (System.Xml.XmlElement)conf_elem.FirstChild; >> System.Xml.XmlElement add_conn = >> xml_doc.CreateElement("add"); >> >> add_conn.SetAttribute("name", u_profile); >> add_conn.SetAttribute("connectionString", "something"); >> add_conn.SetAttribute("providerName", "Npgsql"); >> >> conn_string.AppendChild(add_conn); >> xml_doc.Save(installdir + "Cairo.Producer.exe.config"); >> System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch(); >> >> return ActionResult.Success; >> } >> >> Code works when i put files in installfolder on my computer... >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://n2.nabble.com/C-Custom-Action-change-some-files-during-install >> ation-tp3617476p3617476.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list >> archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --------- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal >> Reports 2008 30-Day trial. 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