[wix-users] Executing an already installed program at install and uninstall time

[Farrukh Waheed]

Ok, so it is working now. But I can't provide any arguments to the
application here. Tried to use attribute ExeCommand for passing arguments,
but got following error:
D:\TestMsis\Notepad.wxs(40) : error CNDL0023 : The CustomAction/@ExeCommand
attribute cannot coexist with a previously specified attribute on this
element.  The CustomAction element may only have one of the following
target attributes specified at a time: DllEntry, Error, ExeCommand,
JScriptCall, Script, Value, or VBScriptCall.


Here is my code snippet:

    <Property Id="WixShellExecTarget" Value="Notepad.exe" />
    <CustomAction Id="LaunchApplication"
        BinaryKey="WixCA"
        DllEntry="WixShellExec"
        Impersonate="yes"
ExeCommand=""C:\Users\TestUser\Desktop\MyText.txt"" />


Found this thread:
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Passing-command-line-arguments-to-an-app-launched-after-setup-td1366362.html

Seems like we can't pass arguments to our executing application here.

On 23 June 2016 at 08:22, Farrukh Waheed <farrukh1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm working on Managed Bootstrapper and read about this here actually:
>
> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/ui_and_localization/run_program_after_install.html
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> On 22 June 2016 at 21:27, Phil Wilson <phil.wilson at mvps.org> wrote:
>
>> It's just a custom action call - just call it. Not sure where you got the
>> button thought from.
>> Phil W
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
>> Behalf Of
>> Farrukh Waheed
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 2:12 AM
>> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Executing an already installed program at install
>> and uninstall time
>>
>> But this way requires a button on UI to launch the app, correct? I need to
>> run such CA simply at the end of Installation/Uninstallation process.
>>
>> On 22 June 2016 at 02:38, Phil Wilson <phil.wilson at mvps.org> wrote:
>>
>> > WixShellExec
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