[wix-users] Custom Action Process Isolation

[Rob Mensching]

Sounds like a great feature request for the Windows Installer team. Doesn't exist today.

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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Marc Reyhner
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 9:26 AM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Custom Action Process Isolation

I was hoping to do the minimal change to this legacy code as possible.  I know custom actions are launched in a separate worker process from the main installer.  If there are some nobs to control the worker lifetime, that will save me a bunch of time for refactoring this old code.

The DLL is dynamically loaded so it's definitely possible to unload it.  This code is shared outside of setup, I'm a bit worried about regressions if I change it too much.  My experience has been that code that never expected to get unloaded frequently has issues when you change that pattern.

Thanks,
-Marc