[wix-users] CSharp Wix Custom Action not fired.

Mon Mar 26 19:13:08 PDT 2018

Ronny

Let me get straight to the point, your proposal using expression syntax "$(var.CustomAction.TargetDir)" go well, Browser button opening the File Explorer.

>So what I do is that I have everything in the same solution in VS.

Thank you very much for your effort. I'm sorry for taking your precious time.
Detail will be posted to the original stackoverflow thread later.

>dll that has just been built and when the WIX is build it will pack it and attached resources that project has into the your MSI.

I suppose your wise proposal is just what I wanted.

>Just so you know, I'm no expert what so ever on WIX, this is just what I have learned by trial and error and ALOT of reading and testing.

I appreciate your generous share of your treasure vault.

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Okay.

So yes, it does not look like you get your dll in to the MSI.
I don't think that it is enough to have it aside your MSI when running the MSI, I think you need it inside you MSI.

So what I do is that I have everything in the same solution in VS.
So both the WIX MSI project and the CustomerAction is in the same Solution.
Then I add the CustomAction Project as a Resource in the WIX MSI project.
That way the CustomAction Project is build when the WIX MSI built and the DLL is incorporated in to the MSI file.
Then I set my CustomAction in the WXS file to this
<Binary Id="CustomAction" SourceFile="$(var. CustomAction.TargetDir)CustomAction.CA.dll" />
This "$(var. CustomAction.TargetDir)" should get the path to your CustomAction.dll that has just been built and when the WIX is build it will pack it and attached resources that project has into the your MSI.
Try that and see if that works better, it works for me atleast.

Just so you know, I'm no expert what so ever on WIX, this is just what I have learned by trial and error and ALOT of reading and testing.

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Thank you for your kind advice, Ronny.

I changed my wxs file following your advice.

1:CustomAction tag [Return="check" Execute="immediate"] to ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡[Execute="firstSequence"]

2:I removed [Indirect="yes"] attribute in textbox UI="Edit".

But I cannot find any difference.

Verbose log before the change is below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FOnhwU8LWmntuoMIT6LlrXEN_EFRp8-U/view?usp=sharing

Verbose log after the change is below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XCofeGL7GdGZ1lQQSItTjF44dGGMllDf/view?usp=sharing

I put on CustomAction1.CA.dll to the directory where the msi file exists. Currently what I most suspect in my wxs file is the Binary SourceFile attribute="SourceDir\CustomAction1.CA.dll"(I only want to make directory structure simple) because msi works as if it cannot find the dll... msi works same even if I remove the dll file in the folder.

I am not sure Visual Studio solution explorer directory structure affects msi runtime operation. I copy and paste the dll to msi folder manually.

Any ideas?

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Hi

I have almost the exact same feature you are trying to  do, and mine works just fine.
The things I can see that is different is the following You have Return="check" Execute="immediate" in your CustomAction setup in the .wxs file and I only have this Execute="firstSequence".
I only want mine to do it on that specific dialog and no where else.

In your UI control "Edit" you have Indirect="yes", I never got that working so I removed it, but you might need that if your Property is connected to another Property And at last I have a Publish after the DoAction on you button control that sets the value to the property.

You are using VS 2010 and I'm using 2015.
I'm using the lasts Wix version.

I don¡¯t see why the wix version should be a problem since I just updated to that version and was using version 3.10 before.
VS 2010 should work but might be worth testing.
The difference in the .wxs file might be the one but I'm not sure.
I don't think that you CustomeAction.cs is the problem.

You could try running the MSI with verbose logging, that way you will see if the property SETUPEXEPATH is set correctly.

/Ronny Eriksson

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Subject: [wix-users] CSharp Wix Custom Action not fired.

Hello:

I (Newbie of Wix) posted a question again about Csharp custom action in Stackoverflow, no answer from gurus in Stackoverflow. Probably because another elementary question....:-(

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49378854/wix-csharp-custom-action-not-fired
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Still I don't have any errors from the msi file.

Is there any good sample of Visual Studio project with Csharp Custom Action...in GitHub or somewhere else? I have found several snippets by Google(like https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/bumin_macintosh/62857832.html), but still cannot find a whole working project file....
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