I banged my head on the keyboard for a bit on this one - and only after putting my custom installation actions in the Constructor of the Installer Class made it run. Visual Studio Installer, Custom Action.
Breakpoint not firing. I was just right-clicking on the installer project and then "Install" and "Uninstall". However, you have to rebuild the Installer project after changing the code!
Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 10 years, 7 months ago. Active 3 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 12k times. Start "regedit. SecurityPermission System. Tim Coolman Tim Coolman 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. You can run. This log file will have the command lines used to execute your custom actions.
To link this project to the installer project we add a "custom action" which is already shown before. Further, to send a parameter from the installer project to the custom action class we can use a custom action property, "custom action data".
You can receive this data in a class using a context object as follows: Context. Parameters "version" ; Step 5: Configuring automatic upgrades of new builds Often we want to upgrade an old installed application with a new one in the user's systems and this should happen using the new setup file which we will distribute to users.
That means the new installer file should automatically delete old files and upgrade new files. This is done by setting a few properties in the setup project as follows: Remove the Previous version: It should be true to remove the previous version of your application. Detect Newer Installed: Version should be true. Version : will be changed whenever you want to make a new build. With the change of version, studio will ask you to change product code and you should click yes. Upgrade Code : This should not be changed since it's common for all builds and.
Net uses this code to detect old builds. With this, your setup should work and remove any older versions of applications.
Although it is some times problematic particularly in Windows 7 where setup doesn't behave as expected, So additionally I tried to change the version for each project in my solution, and it worked for me. Your custom action, conditioned on the Windows Installer component containing that file, is also being called.
You probably expected your custom action to be called only once when your product was installed, but as you see it may be called again. Take another look at Figure 1. I just mentioned that an install custom action is conditioned on the component being installed, which is why it also gets called during a repair.
But CADll and showprop. So what makes this an install custom action? The internal condition is that the custom action is called if this is not a complete uninstall of the product. The last key piece of information is that a repair ensures that the entire feature is installed, and Visual Studio setup projects have a single feature.
If you look at Figure 1, during a repair the WinForm. You might do a repair from the context menu of an MSI file and your custom actions will run again. The solution is to add an extra condition to the custom actions to prevent them from being called during a repair. Figure 5 shows this condition in the custom-action properties. I hope this article will help you to use them successfully. Standardize team-based development - Prevent rework and conflicts, build consistency and quality into your code, and gain time for development that adds value, with standardized best practices for database development.
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Home Development. Property " CustomActionData ". LogMessage hInstall , msg ;. MSI s A0 : 80 [ 10 : 48 : 48 : ] : Invoking remote custom action. DLL :. Install savedState ;. Parameters ;. Parameters [ myString ] ;. Show sb. I started working on it but found very few samples and mostly built using. I learned a little and found how to perform custom actions in UnManaged code. The scripts or the function written in DLL is called by the installer.
In this article, I will provide information for calling custom functions from DLL. I have created a custom demo installer and DLL attached with this article. I am also providing detail description about the creation of this demo installer along with images.
A dialog will appear as shown below. In this dialog, we have to select project type. Since our task is to create installer, we have to select " Setup and Deployment " under " Other Project Types ". We have to provide installer project name. I had provided project name as " CusomtActionInstaller " as shown below:. After clicking " OK ", Installer project will get created. It shows file view of the installer which contains " Application Folder "," User's Desktop " and " user's program menu ".
All the files which are required by the application are added in this folder. It will open a browse dialog which can be used for selecting required application files. We have to create a new win32 project for creating DLL for custom action. DLL can be created by adding a new project. Click " Next " in this dialog.
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