Rob, have you taken a look at the method that Christopher Painter alluded to in his comment on your blog post regarding Managed CA's? He seems to have built something that implements a helper process to load the CLR and communicates with the installer via IPC. This seems to be more of the architecture that you suggested would like be "the way" to do this if you were going to do this.
I also commented on your blog (and many others did as well) that the strategy as expressed to you by the architects you spoke to doesn't seem to hold water for many of us now. I think we all understand that CAs are hard to get right and create instability, so they are best avoided. Unfortunately, they happen to be unavoidable in many cases. Telling us that a future version of Windows and the installer may make it such that we won't need as many CAs is nice, but it doesn't help anyone get any work done now. Some part of you must agree with that assessment, as you spend a lot of your time developing CAs to address these gaps now. I'm sure you've also realized by now that WiX is never going to create a big enough CA library to take care of everyone's needs (although please don't stop trying on my account--I'm happy to use yours whenever I can!). Why not a "managed code IPC invoker CA" for WiX? Perhaps Christopher would even contribute? It can't be much dirtier than the silent execution CA and offers the advantage of richer integration with the installer. Joe K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Mensching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mailinglist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using .NET 2.0 Managed Custom Actions >I wish you the best of luck. As long as you know that you are doing things >that are not supported (and in a way actively discouraged) then may your >code work for a very long time. I also hope your install does not create >future compatibility problems for the Windows Installer team (from what >I've heard they have their hands full enough as it is). > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mailinglist > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 6:06 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using .NET 2.0 Managed Custom Actions > > Hi Johan, > >> How does this work around the technical reason for managed custom >> actions not working that Rob Mensching blogged about recently? > > Well, it works, though we have not testet calling managed custom actions > for different framework versions. We roll out our software, entirely > written for .NET 2.0 as well as the custom actions are. > > Greetings > > Oliver Friedrich > Consultant - Software Solutions > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
