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

[Edwin Castro]

I should mention including CustomAction.wxs in the project is like defining
a function in a program. Defining the function by itself is not enough. The
function has to be called from main or a function that is called directly
or indirectly from main.

The WiX equivalent for calling a function is a reference. In WiX you must
reference a Fragment from the Product element or from a Fragment referenced
directly or indirectly from the Product element.

--
Edwin G. Castro


On Sat, Apr 2, 2022, 21:42 Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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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