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Shintaro Takechi devst119 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 09:31:46 PDT 2016


Thank you very much for your responses.
I did realize the installer was failing and after installing a separate
test file, the custom action started to work.
I guess custom action cannot be performed without installing something.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:04 AM, John Cooper <JoCooper at jackhenry.com> wrote:

> Is it started in the UI sequence (from a control)?  If so, there will be
> no logging.
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> Hi
>
> I have very basic WiX Custom Action and .wxs file that is only running
> that custom action.
>
>     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>     <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
>     <Product Id="*" Name="WiXFileCopyTest" Language="1033"
> Version="1.0.0.0" Manufacturer="testCompany"
> UpgradeCode="012423ee-b380-4fce-9c79-1cc8fe6c5923">
>     <Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes"
> InstallScope="perMachine" />
>          <Binary Id="DirectoryTreeCopyWiXCustomActionDLL"
>
> SourceFile="$(var.DirectoryTreeCopyWiXCustomAction.TargetDir)DirectoryTreeCopyWiXCustomAction.CA.dll"
> />
>
>         <CustomAction Id="CA_DirectoryTreeCopy"
>                       BinaryKey="DirectoryTreeCopyWiXCustomActionDLL"
>                       DllEntry="CopyDirectoryTree"
>                       Execute="immediate"
>                       Return="check"/>
>          <InstallExecuteSequence>
>         <Custom Action="CA_DirectoryTreeCopy"
>                 After="InstallInitialize"/>
>         </InstallExecuteSequence>
>     </Product>
>     </Wix>
>
> Following is the C# implementation of custom action.
>
>     using System;
>     using System.Collections.Generic;
>     using System.Text;
>     using Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller;
>     using System.IO;
>
>     namespace DirectoryTreeCopyWiXCustomAction
>     {
>         public class CustomActions
>         {
>             [CustomAction]
>             public static ActionResult CopyDirectoryTree(Session session)
>             {
>                 session.Log("Begin CopyDirectoryTree");
>
>                 var EtapUserPath =
>
> Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData),
> "test\\");
>                 var SourcePath = Path.Combine(EtapUserPath, "test 1.1\\");
>                 var DestinationPath = Path.Combine(EtapUserPath, "test
> 1.2\\");
>
>                 //Now Create all of the directories
>                 foreach (string dirPath in
> Directory.GetDirectories(SourcePath, "*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
>                     Directory.CreateDirectory(dirPath.Replace(SourcePath,
> DestinationPath));
>
>                 //Copy all the files & Replaces any files with the same
> name
>                 foreach (string newPath in Directory.GetFiles(SourcePath,
> "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
>                     File.Copy(newPath, newPath.Replace(SourcePath,
> DestinationPath), true);
>
>                 return ActionResult.Success;
>             }
>         }
>     }
>
>
> Of course, I do have the references on my wix project set to the
> DirectoryTreeCopyWiXCustomAction project, so that is out of equation.
>
> I have tested the code so I know that the main C# code is functioning.
>
> I opened the result msi and saw that CustomAction exist in the msi.
>
> When I output the log, I do not see anywhere that states "Begin
> CpyDirectoryTree".
>
> I just cannot figure out how to make the custom action work.
>
> Seems extremely straight forward, but it is not working for me.
>
> Thank you
>
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