It is essential that managed custom actions have an [CustomAction] attribute
for each method call that will be used as a custom action. E.g.,
[CustomAction]
Public static ActionResult DoSomething(Session session)
{
// code here
}
By having the Return attribute set to "ignore", the errors that you would
normally get are hidden from you unless you look very closely at a verbose log.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Reeves [mailto:craig.ree...@kraygsoft.com]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 2:40 AM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Custom Action not be called
I have some problems with managed code custom actions. I have 3 custom actions
but only one of them is working. They are called at different times in
InstallExecuteSequence but moving them makes no difference. I know there not
getting very far because if I place a message box at the beginning of the
routine(for debugging) it never get called . Where am I going wrong ? The
actions are created like so.
<Binary Id="CA"
SourceFile="$(var.ca.Custom.Actions.TargetDir)$(var.ca.Custom.Actions.TargetName).CA.dll"
/>
<CustomAction Id="WriteRemoveArpEntry" Property="CustomActionData"
Value="PNAME=$(var.ProductName)" HideTarget="yes" />
<CustomAction Id="RemoveArpEntry" BinaryKey="CA"
DllEntry="RemoveProductFromARP" Return="ignore" />
<CustomAction Id="SetValueforProductFolder" Property="CustomActionData"
Value="SDIR=[INSTALLDIR];TDIR=[MANUDIR]\backup\$(var.ProductName)\$(var.VersionNumber)"
HideTarget="yes" />
<CustomAction Id="Backup_Product_DIR" BinaryKey="CA" DllEntry="BackupDIR"
Return="ignore" />
<CustomAction Id="WriteInstallAttemptData" Property="CustomActionData"
Value="PRODUCTNAME=$(var.ProductName);APPVERSION=$(var.VersionNumber)"
HideTarget="yes" />
<CustomAction Id="WriteInstallAttempt" BinaryKey="CA"
DllEntry="WriteXMLServer" Return="ignore" />
I then call them here
<Custom Action="SetValueforProductFolder" Before="Backup_Product_DIR">NOT
Installed AND NOT REMOVE</Custom>
<Custom Action="Backup_Product_DIR" Before="InstallFinalize">NOT Installed
AND NOT REMOVE</Custom>
<Custom Action="WriteRemoveArpEntry" Before="InstallFinalize">NOT Installed
AND NOT REMOVE</Custom>
<Custom Action="RemoveArpEntry" After="WriteRemoveArpEntry">NOT Installed AND
NOT REMOVE</Custom>
<Custom Action="WriteInstallAttemptData" After="InstallFinalize">NOT
Installed AND NOT REMOVE</Custom>
<Custom Action="WriteInstallAttempt" After="WriteInstallAttemptData">NOT
Installed AND NOT REMOVE</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
The headers for the routines look like this
public static ActionResult BackupDIR(Session session)
{
public static ActionResult RemoveProductFromARP(Session session)
{
Public static ActionResult WriteXMLServer(Session session)
{
However only WriteXMLServer works. In the log file I get the following .
MSI (s) (BC:9C) [07:23:45:562]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL:
C:\Windows\Installer\MSI2E2A.tmp, Entrypoint: BackupDIR CustomAction
Backup_Product_DIR returned actual error code 1154 but will be translated to
success due to continue marking
In the one that works I get
MSI (s) (BC:A0) [07:24:25:994]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL:
C:\Windows\Installer\MSICC20.tmp, Entrypoint: WriteXMLServer SFXCA: Extracting
custom action to temporary directory: C:\Windows\Installer\MSICC20.tmp-\ SFXCA:
Binding to CLR version v4.0.30319?
Done this sort of thing lots of time's and never had any problems.
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