Hi,
I'm currently busy writing an MSI custom action DLL, inside this DLL
I'm trying to open a file with the default associated program, if I use
standard ShellExecute call from EXE it works, but not from this DLL, is
there anything special that needs to be done to call ShellExecute from
a DLL?
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Lionel
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Lionel wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently busy writing an MSI custom action DLL, inside this DLL
I'm trying to open a file with the default associated program, if I
use standard ShellExecute call from EXE it works, but not from this
DLL, is there anything special that needs to be done to call
ShellExecute from a DLL?
It's not that you're calling it from a DLL, but rather rather, I suspect,
that you're calling it from inside msiexec.exe that's making it not work. I
have no idea what to do about it, but you should try asking on the windows
installer newsgroup - microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi.
-cd
Hi,
You're absolutely correct, the DLL is called from the MSI, but I've
posted on MSI groups, they tell me post on C++ group.
Thanks,
Lionel
Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP] wrote:
Lionel wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently busy writing an MSI custom action DLL, inside this DLL
I'm trying to open a file with the default associated program, if I
use standard ShellExecute call from EXE it works, but not from this
DLL, is there anything special that needs to be done to call
ShellExecute from a DLL?
It's not that you're calling it from a DLL, but rather rather, I suspect,
that you're calling it from inside msiexec.exe that's making it not work. I
have no idea what to do about it, but you should try asking on the windows
installer newsgroup - microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi.
-cd
Lionel wrote:
Hi,
You're absolutely correct, the DLL is called from the MSI, but I've
posted on MSI groups, they tell me post on C++ group.
Thanks,
Lionel
Lionel:
Another suggestion: use Inno Setup :).
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