Your CAs are all deferred so there is a very small subset of properties
you can get with MsiGetProperty. Parameters are passed to deferred
custom actions in a property called CustomActionData. To set
CustomActionData, you have to use another custom action to set a
property with the same name as the deferred custom action to a string
with the value(s) you want to pass to the custom action. If you have
multiple data items you need to pass, you will need to pass them like a
command line that your CA code will parse
<Property Id="CA_Arguments2" Value="1" />
<!-- This CA sets a property that matches the name of the CA to which we
want to
pass data (CA2). Here we are setting the property with a switch
and an
argument/value pair -->
<CustomAction Id="SetCustomActionDataForCA2" Return="check"
Property="CA2" Value="/switch1 /arg2=value2" />
<!-- CAFunction2 will get the CA2 property by using "CustomActionData"
in the
MsiGetProperty() call and parse the returned string like a command
line
to retrieve the two arguments -->
<CustomAction Id="CA2" Execute="deferred" Return="check"
BinaryKey="mycustom.dll" DllEntry="CAFunction2"
HideTarget="no"/>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="SetCustomActionDataForCA2" Before="CA2" />
<Custom Action="CA2" After="InstallInitialize" />
</InstallExecuteSequence>
Then in CAFunction2() retrieve CustomActionData with:
MsiGetProperty (hInstall, L"CustomActionData", szActionData,
&dwActionData);
CAFunction2 will have to parse szActionData like a commandline to
retrieve the arguments.
> > <Custom Action="CA_SetProperty2" After="SomeOtherCA">< somecondition
> >> </Custom>
> > <Custom Action="CA2" After="CA_SetProperty2">< somecondition
> ></Custom>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Pallavi Patrutkar
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:01 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Rob Hamflett
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Property name to be used in MsiGetProperty
>
> I wrote the code according to the sample given in online MSDN doc.
>
> So, you have to call MsiGetProperty() method twice.
> In 1st call, you get the length of the actual value, passed as a 4th
> parameter of MsiGetProperty() and return value comes as
> ERROR_MORE_DATA
> which is correct according to doc.
> In 2nd call, you have to pass this length as 4th parameter and for 3rd
> parameter, construct a string array with the size as above length +1.
> This call returns ERROR_SUCCESS, which is also according to the doc.
>
> So, I am wondering whether I am using the correct string as a 2nd
> parameter to MsiGetProperty() or not.
>
> Can you tell me if there is any problem in this call as I
> have mentioned
> in my previous email?
>
> Regards,
> Pallavi.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob
> Hamflett
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 4:17 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Property name to be used in MsiGetProperty
>
> Ah, OK. It just wasn't clear from your first post. What's the return
> value for MsiGetProperty?
>
> Rob
>
> Pallavi Patrutkar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a customaction and property as defined below in WIX file
> >
> >
> >
> > <Property Id="CA_Arguments1" Value="1" />
> > <CustomAction Id=" CA_SetProperty1" Return="check"
> > Property="CA_Arguments1" Value="<somecommand1>" />
> > <CustomAction Id="CA1" Execute="deferred" Return="check"
> > BinaryKey="mycustom.dll" DllEntry="CAFunction1" HideTarget="no"/>
> >
> > <Property Id="CA_Arguments2" Value="1" />
> > <CustomAction Id=" CA_SetProperty2" Return="check"
> > Property="CA_Arguments2" Value="<somecommand2>" />
> > <CustomAction Id="CA2" Execute="deferred" Return="check"
> > BinaryKey="mycustom.dll" DllEntry="CAFunction2"
> > HideTarget="no"/>
> >
> >
> > <Custom Action="CA_SetProperty1" After=" SomeOtherCA"><
> somecondition
> >> </Custom>
> > <Custom Action="CA1"
> After="CA_SetProperty1"><somecondition></Custom>
> > <Custom Action="CA_SetProperty2" After="SomeOtherCA">< somecondition
> >> </Custom>
> > <Custom Action="CA2" After="CA_SetProperty2">< somecondition
> ></Custom>
> > -----------------------------------
> > I am calling method in C++ source file as below -
> >
> > MsiGetProperty (hInstall, L"CA_Arguments1", szActionData,
> > &dwActionData);
> > MsiGetProperty (hInstall, L"CA_Arguments2", szActionData,
> > &dwActionData);
> >
> > But, I am getting dwActionData value as zero. And I nowhere
> got in any
> > documentation that which string from the above WIX code
> should be used
> > as 2nd argument for the above method. So, I am just
> wondering whether
> I
> > am using correct string or not.
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pallavi.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob
> > Hamflett
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:33 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Property name to be used in MsiGetProperty
> >
> > How are you passing a custom value to your DLL? I thought that you
> > could only receive a handle to
> > the MSI package. Are you sure the property name in the DLL is
> correct?
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > Pallavi Patrutkar wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I am trying to pass a property to a method in a DLL. But I am not
> >> getting the actual property value in my DLL through MsiGetProperty.
> >>
> >> It returns the length of parameter as zero. But still
> method returns
> >> successfully.
> >>
> >> Can you tell me exactly which string from WXS file should I pass to
> > this
> >> method as a 2^nd parameter to get the correct property value?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Pallavi.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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