[wix-users] Custom Actions in separate assembly

[harald goci]

Hi Andrei!

A CA is always a separate assembly - at least from my understanding.
So you call it as any CA.

Define a Binary element like <Binary Id="somethingDLL"
SourceFile="something.CA.dll" />.
And call it with a Custom Action element like <CustomAction
Id="somethingCA" BinaryKey="somethingDLL"
DllEntry="somethingAction" ...  />

BR,
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From:	Хакер Математики via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
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Cc:	Хакер Математики <as at andrique.ru>
Date:	28.06.2018 10:46
Subject:	[wix-users] Custom Actions in separate assembly
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I am writing a MSI setup with WixSharp and am using Custom Actions within.

The CAs themselves work fine, but now I've added an embedded WPF UI as
per WixSharp sample EmbeddedUI_WPF.

So now it seems I have to move CAs into separate assembly, because of
"CA and UI entry points cannot be in the same assembly" error message.
When I do so, the installer compiles OK, producing MSI file.

However, the MSI seems to not find CAs, as installation fails.

So how do I link/call CAs from separate assembly?

--
Andrei Samoylov


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