Re: [WiX-users] Dependent DLLs of a Custom Action Binary are not getting loaded properly

Hi, I'm assuming your are using managed dll's. I think the caller dll is expanded to a temporary directory (due MSI not handling managed code). Is your called dll also expanded or existing there? You can add System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch(); to the beginning of your caller CA and check if your

Re: [WiX-users] Dependent DLLs of a Custom Action Binary are not getting loaded properly

ies. Phil W -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 4:46 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dependent DLLs of a Custom Action Binary are not getting loaded properly When is this action

Re: [WiX-users] Dependent DLLs of a Custom Action Binary are not getting loaded properly

When is this action scheduled? Generally it is recommended that custom actions be DLLs in the Binary table compiled to "statically" include their runtime environment. Suryadeep Biswal wrote: Hi, I have a Type 17 Custom Action in my wxs file. The Custom Action dll depends on another dll tha

[WiX-users] Dependent DLLs of a Custom Action Binary are not getting loaded properly

Hi, I have a Type 17 Custom Action in my wxs file. The Custom Action dll depends on another dll that is in the same directory. However, i see that runtime does not load the dependent dll and as a result loading of the Custom Action fails with error 1157 (One of the library files needed to run