[wix-users] Can anyone give me a nice simple example of returning values from a Custom Action?

[Paul Mumford]

Hi Harold, thanks for getting back to me! I do have that sequence and it
does work. Sorry I missed it from the original post:

    <InstallExecuteSequence>
      <Custom Action="SelectClientServerID" Before="InstallValidate" />
    </InstallExecuteSequence>

Basically everything works except I dont know how to get the data back from
the custom action as originally said. I 'think' im doing it right but it
doesn't work (which means im doing it wrong :) )

Best,

P.


On 12 September 2017 at 14:44, harald goci <harald.goci at panagenda.com>
wrote:

> Hi Paul!
>
> I'm missing the InstallExecuteSequence like this:
>     <InstallExecuteSequence>
>       <Custom Action="SelectClientServerID" Before="???" />
>     </InstallExecuteSequence>
>
> It seems to me your custom action does not get called.
>
> BR,
> Harald Goci
> Senior Software Engineer
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> From:   Paul Mumford via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
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> Cc:     Paul Mumford <paul.mumford at gmail.com>
> Date:   12.09.2017 10:04
> Subject:        [wix-users] Can anyone give me a nice simple example of
>             returning values from a Custom Action?
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>
> Hi, been banging my head against the wall on this!
>
> I have a c# custom action to select an option and enter some text, how can
> I reference and act on it in the wxs. Really id like to optionally install
> different components depending on the select but I can seem to reference
> the property returned in session.
>
> Here is a sample:
>
>     <Property Id="THING_INSTALL_TYPE" Value="Default" />
>
>     <Binary Id="THINGSetupCustomActionsDLL"
> SourceFile=".\Compiled\THINGSetupCustomActions.CA.dll"
> />
>     <CustomAction Id="SelectClientServerID"
> BinaryKey="THINGSetupCustomActionsDLL"
> DllEntry="SelectClientServer" Execute="immediate" Return="check" />
>
> Will happily run the custom DLL.
>
> In c# I say:
>
> session["THING_INSTALL_TYPE"] = "Client";
>
> Then in the WXS I want to conditionally install components based on the
> result, see condition in bold below. I have to do it this way because of
> various reasons but it just doesn't seem to return the property back from
> the custom action. Any ideas?
>
>             <Component Id='AppComponentID' Guid='xxxxxxxx-3C67-4826-BB16-
> 82DD9D876B29'>
>               <File Id='THINGEXEFileID' Name='THING.exe' DiskId='1'
> Source='.\Compiled\THING.exe' KeyPath='yes'>
>                 <Shortcut Id="startmenuTHINGLink"
> Directory="ProgramMenuDir" Name="THINGWorkingDirectory='INSTALLDIR' Icon="
> THING.exe" IconIndex="0" Advertise="yes" />
>                 <Shortcut Id="desktopTHING" Directory="DesktopFolder"
> Name="
> THING" WorkingDirectory='INSTALLDIR' Icon="THINGApp.exe" IconIndex="0"
> Advertise="yes" />
>               </File>
>              * <Condition>**THING_INSTALL_TYPE = "Client"</Condition>*
>             </Component>
>
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