[wix-users] Detect Custom Action Execute Mode

[Edwin Castro]

Thanks for the link!

I should have found that on my own...

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Edwin G. Castro



On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> ::MsiGetMode() - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/
> aa370125(v=vs.85).aspx
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> Subject: [wix-users] Detect Custom Action Execute Mode
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> Is it possible to detect if a custom action is running immediate,
> deferred, or rollback? I'm wondering if it makes sense to have a single
> entry point instead of three...
>
> I suppose checking for custom action data could help me here since the
> absence of custom action data indirectly indicates immediate mode while the
> existence of custom action data indicates deferred or rollback mode. I
> suppose the custom action data itself could tell me if I'm running rollback
> or not...
>
> Those thoughts feel hackish... Is there an idiomatic way to do this?
> Presumably, the Windows Installer engine implements standard actions
> similarly to how custom actions are implemented and they don't seem to have
> separate immediate, deferred, rollback, and commit standard actions... but
> perhaps they do and we just can't see them.
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> Edwin G. Castro
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