[wix-devs] Custom action at cancel uninstallation

Denis Reinoso reinoso.denis at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 11:29:21 PST 2017


Hello, my question is:

How to define a custom action to execute when the cancel button (at
uninstallation) is pressed in WiX Toolset?

I have found that the cancel button should be defined like this:

    <Control Id="Cancel" Type="PushButton" X="304" Y="243" Width="56"
Height="17" Cancel="yes" Text="Cancel">
        <Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="CancelButton"/>
    </Control>

And a publish event is defined to the custom action, which could be defined
like:

    <CustomAction Id="CancelButton" Execute="immediate"
ExeCommand='Program.exe"   Return="ignore"/>

An error shows up:  **Unresolved reference to symbol
'Dialog:CancelButton'**

A Dialog element in WiX cannot have a custom action as child, so where
should be defined that custom action?

Two links with related information:

 - [How to cancel an uninstallation using CancelDlg][1]
 - [Custom Action as event][2]

  [1]:
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-cancel-an-installation-using-CancelDlg-td704211.html
  [2]:
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Custom-action-as-Event-td689561.html
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