Re: [WiX-users] VBScript custom action failing - error hard to decipher

2009-11-03 Thread Rob Mensching
There are a lot of reasons not to use script based custom actions due to environmental issues. They have a tendency to fail significantly more often than other types of custom actions (and custom actions have a tendency to fail significantly more than the built in support). Personally, I recommend

Re: [WiX-users] VBScript custom action failing - error hard to decipher

2009-11-02 Thread Scott Palmer
Thanks, I found that and fixed a few other VBScript problems and now I have it working. (Only to discover other problems, however.) Scott On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Wilson, Phil wrote: > The WScript.Echo won't work - that's supplied by the WSH object, not by MSI. > Do you see that message?

Re: [WiX-users] VBScript custom action failing - error hard to decipher

2009-11-02 Thread Wilson, Phil
The WScript.Echo won't work - that's supplied by the WSH object, not by MSI. Do you see that message? MsiProvideComponent is normal - any of the entrypoints that have a Darwin descriptor (COM,file associations, shortcuts) use that to locate the target file (causing repair if needed). Apart f