> > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:38:16 +0000, Fredrik Grohn wrote: > > First to all, please, clear out all the participants from the To: and > CC: lines and keep the discussion on the list itself. I guess we all > monitor it regularly so it's really not beneficial to receive every > posting twice, both directly and from the list. > > Fredrik, > > > What I don't understand is why people are so eager to build managed > > custom actions in the first place. > > That's what bothers me, too. If somebody really wanting to write a > managed (or unmanaged) custom action could tell us why he or she needs > it in the first place. I completely agree with Richard Foster, me, too: > the only real custom action I ever wrote was to check the product key > entered by the user. I have a suspicion that the need for custom > actions stem from sloppy programming of the application to be installed > rather than any real, legitimate need for something WI can't solve. >
The ONLY reason that I have for using a managed custom action is that *Microsoft* is telling me to. Last year, I went to an ISV training course presented by Microsoft at Microsoft and the MMC and PowerShell teams both showed us how to create managed Installer based classes to install our MMC and PowerShell snapins. When I asked them about this problem, they didn't seem to understand the issue. More and more managed Installer based classes are being released by Microsoft and in most cases, they aren't documenting what the installers do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
