[wix-users] Custom Action

[Joel Budreau]

Extracting files from a Cabinet -
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff797927(v=vs.85).aspx

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Richard D. Brown II <rdbrownii at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way to access the contents of the .cab file from within an
> installer's custom action (written in C#)?  I need to get the main .exe
> being installed for licensing verification.  This needs to happen before
> anything gets installed on the client.  I have an alternate solution of
> including the exe as an embedded resource in the custom action dll, but
> it's
> not an ideal solution.  For one, it's already embedded in the cab file
> within the msi and it could be easily missed when updating the application
> and the install.
>
> I'd appreciate any help (hopefully with a code sample showing how to do it)
> you can give.
>
> Thanks. RickB
>
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