Custom Action during Setup!

[Vai2000]

Hi All, I need to execute custom action during installation of my program
(through MSI). Creating the MSI was pretty straight fwd. After that I went
into the Custom Action Editor and added the custom action (EXE) at the
install condition. Unfortunately when I roll out my MSI I don't see the
custom action being executed.
For now I just wrote few lines on my customAction.exe (like hello world etc)
its a console application.

Can someone tell me how to get through this problem?

TIA

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Vai
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[Peter Rilling]

Customer actions are classes that inherit from the Installer class. They
have methods that you override that the MSI calls during execution. Since
nothing happened, I would assume that your component that you referenced has
no custom actions defined in it. Custom actions are NOT executable meaning
the MSI does not call the Main method.

"Vai2000" <va*@onebox.com> wrote in message
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Hi All, I need to execute custom action during installation of my program
(through MSI). Creating the MSI was pretty straight fwd. After that I went
into the Custom Action Editor and added the custom action (EXE) at the
install condition. Unfortunately when I roll out my MSI I don't see the
custom action being executed.
For now I just wrote few lines on my customAction.exe (like hello world etc) its a console application.

Can someone tell me how to get through this problem?

TIA

--
========
Regards
Vai
========

[Vai2000]

Thanks Peter, I did created a class library and derived out of Installer
base class and override the two methods Install and Uninstall. But still it
doesn't gets called.

Thanks

"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.rilling.net> wrote in message
news:O$**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Customer actions are classes that inherit from the Installer class. They
have methods that you override that the MSI calls during execution. Since
nothing happened, I would assume that your component that you referenced has no custom actions defined in it. Custom actions are NOT executable meaning the MSI does not call the Main method.

"Vai2000" <va*@onebox.com> wrote in message
news:uf**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi All, I need to execute custom action during installation of my program (through MSI). Creating the MSI was pretty straight fwd. After that I went into the Custom Action Editor and added the custom action (EXE) at the
install condition. Unfortunately when I roll out my MSI I don't see the
custom action being executed.
For now I just wrote few lines on my customAction.exe (like hello world

etc)

its a console application.

Can someone tell me how to get through this problem?

TIA

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========
Regards
Vai
========

[Patrick Baker [MSFT]]

That should have worked.

Did you make sure that the InstallerClass Property was set to TRUE.

Also, you mention it was a console app. Are you trying to write to stdout?
I don't believe that will work. Try msgbox.

Patrick Baker - Visual Basic/Deployment Quality Assurance Team
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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Thanks Peter, I did created a class library and derived out of Installer
base class and override the two methods Install and Uninstall. But still it
doesn't gets called.

Thanks

"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.rilling.net> wrote in message
news:O$**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Customer actions are classes that inherit from the Installer class. They
have methods that you override that the MSI calls during execution. Since

nothing happened, I would assume that your component that you referenced

has

no custom actions defined in it. Custom actions are NOT executable

meaning

the MSI does not call the Main method.

"Vai2000" <va*@onebox.com> wrote in message
news:uf**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

> Hi All, I need to execute custom action during installation of my

program > (through MSI). Creating the MSI was pretty straight fwd. After that Iwent > into the Custom Action Editor and added the custom action (EXE) at the
> install condition. Unfortunately when I roll out my MSI I don't see the
> custom action being executed.
> For now I just wrote few lines on my customAction.exe (like hello world

etc)

> its a console application.
>
> Can someone tell me how to get through this problem?
>
> TIA
>
> --
> ========
> Regards
> Vai
> ========
>
>