[wix-users] Custom Actions are getting excluded from MSI

[Edwin Castro]

The product in the nuget package has to provide an extension point. Some
ComponentGroup or FeatureGroup or similar that it references and must be
defined by you. Include or reference the CustomAction and other required
elements in the same Fragment that defines the extension element.

You said the CustomAction is missing from the CustomAction table. Is it
present in the InstallExecuteSequence table? What about the custom action
DLL? Is it present in the Binary table? If yes, then make sure the
CustomAction is referenced from the Fragment containing the element that is
present in the MSI.

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Edwin G. Castro


On Sat, Apr 2, 2022, 11:37 Venkatesh H via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Also, the CustomAction.wxs has an <InstallExecuteSequence> element, which
> references the custom actions. But still the custom actions are not found
> in the MSI table. I also checked and confirmed that CustomAction.wxs is
> included in the .wixproj file.
>
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 11:30 PM Venkatesh H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have an existing Visual Studio WiX project. It has Custom Actions
> > defined in a separate CustomAction.wxs file. But the custom actions are
> not
> > getting called, although the conditions are correct. After a lot of
> > thinking,I opened up the MSI in Orca and found that these Custom Actions
> > are missing in the Custom Action table.
> >
> > I cannot add a CustomActionRef element since the Product element is
> > implemented in a separate framework and referenced as a NuGet package. I
> > don't know how to ensure CAs are included in the MSI and getting called.
> > Can anyone please help?
> >
>
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