[wix-users] Running a powershell script as a custom action...

[Joel Budreau]

Ah, interesting...

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com> wrote:

> PowerShell is written in C#. To run your script the target system already
> needs to have PowerShell and, transitively, .NET.
>
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Joel Budreau <joel.budreau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Our installers don't currently require/install .NET. So I'm hesitant to
> add
> > the full .NET redist to our installer just to run a C# custom action.
> > Unless there's something here that I'm missing...
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Joseph L. Casale <
> > jcasale at activenetwerx.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
> > Behalf
> > > Of Joel Budreau
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 5:00 PM
> > > To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > > Subject: [wix-users] Running a powershell script as a custom action...
> > >
> > > > It appears that the unofficial/official way to detect if a program is
> > > > running inside of an Azure VM is to run this powershell script:
> > > > https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/
> > Detect-Windows-Azure-
> > > > aed06d51
> > >
> > > Have you actually looked at the code in the script? Why not just
> author a
> > > native custom action in C#?
> > >
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