Tom;
No I did not try that. I saw the bootstrapperApplicationData="yes"
attribute. I was not sure why it was there or how I could take advantage of
it.
I appreciate Rob's explanation which made sense. My goal was to create a
WixExtension and do a data driven CA similar to the Difx extension in Wix
when I asked the question, however I was using another sample to create a
CustomTable as a preliminary experiment to understand WiX constructs, when I
came across the above question.
After a printer driver is 'installed' using DifxExtension, I need to do some
configuration of the Printer object. While I was trying to do this by
implementing an extension, I noticed the general concern that there is no
guarantee as to the order in which extensions are processed. This
extension would only be used when a driver was installed with Difx, but I
don't think it will matter in which order the code is processed as long as
the install CA is sequenced after the Difx install CA.
I saw issues that others reported when they tried (like me) to copy one to
the src\ext projects into a new project, separate from the wix src tree. I
also saw Rob's suggestion that they start from the project at wix-contrib
which is 'designed' to be a standalone project. However I have not been
able to get either approach to compile with WiX 3.8.916.0. (Sorry, I did
not have a chance to try out the RC yet.)
For starters the include and lib paths in the wix-contrib project are
incorrect as the files are not located at $(WIX)sdk\inc or $(WIX)sdk\lib.
Even with those issues resolved both of the CA projects get a bunch of
unresolved external symbol errors.
1> Creating library bin\Debug\WixContribSchedCA.lib and object
bin\Debug\WixContribSchedCA.exp
1>dutil.lib(fileutil.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
_VerQueryValueW@16 referenced in function _FileVersion@12
1>dutil.lib(fileutil.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
_GetFileVersionInfoW@16 referenced in function _FileVersion@12
1>dutil.lib(fileutil.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
_GetFileVersionInfoSizeW@8 referenced in function _FileVersion@12
1>bin\Debug\WixContribSchedCA.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved
externals
There is a comment at wix-contrib indicating that the quality of the code is
low. I tried to use one of the wix\src\ext projects (in a separate project
using settings similar to the wix-contrib project), but in this situation I
cannot seem to get past errors related to changing this line
using DifxApp =
Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.Serialize.DifxApp;
to
using Printer =
Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.Serialize.Printer;
The word Serialize is red and all references to a Printer namespace are
undefined.
So obviously I have more to learn before I can create an extension that
configures printer objects, but I am still trying any approach that would
bring a smile to the boss's face. It is over due. :)
Thanks for any advice.
Phill
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