Re: [WiX-users] custom action executing managed executables

[Christopher Painter]

This is probably a timely posting/read for you:
   
  
http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2007/10/20/integration-hurdles-for-exe-custom-actions.aspx
  

Daniel Doubrovkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
                Dear all,
   
  I read robmen’s article on managed custom actions. I have an installer type 
activity to execute that I must do during installation (installing performance 
counters). You need to be admin to do that, so I have to run it within the 
installation.
   
  We want to execute the InstallPerfCounters.exe with a CA, which works easily 
with a CustomAction. Unfortunately you don’t get any feedback except success 
and failure. I’d like InstallPerfCounters.exe to log back.
   
  So I thought of a simple solution: implement a C++ custom action that spawns 
InstallPerfCounters.exe, hooks up to its stdout and logs all lines into the MSI 
log using the MSI API. Thus anything that InstallPerfCounters.exe outputs will 
appear in the log.
   
  Has anyone done something like this? Is this a good/bad/crazy idea?
   
  Thx
  dB.
   
  Daniel Doubrovkine (dB.)
  Development Manager & Lead Architect
Application Security Inc.
  appsecinc.com
   
   

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