There's a Win32_ReadFile immediate native (C++) CA in http://msiext.codeplex.com. It was added in 1.2 which hasn't shipped yet, but is stable - http://msiext.codeplex.com/releases/view/39468. Note that it doesn't support encoding, so only works for ANSI files.
If you're writing a managed CA yourself, well, just read the file with StreamReader.ReadToEnd and then set a property with the contents read. Hope it helps, -dB. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -----Original Message----- From: Niklas Söderberg [mailto:niklas.soderb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:38 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Read file content from CA Is it possible to get the contents of a file from a custom action (managed code)? I know I can get the contents of a binary item, but is it possible to somehow do the same for a regular file included in the installation package? I want to do this in an immediate custom action executed in the ui sequence. I'm guessing no since I've searched and googled extensively, in vain, but I'm still rather new to wix so perhaps I've missed something. Thanks, Niklas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
