Castro, Edwin G. Castro (Hillsboro) wrote:
> If I understand correctly I need to two custom actions: one for scheduling 
> (immediate action), and one for doing the work (deferred action).
>
> What exactly gets scheduled in the scheduling custom action?
>   

The deferred custom action, which isn't listed in the 
InstallExecuteSequence table.

> How does the processing custom action figure out which files to process if it 
> can't access the MSI db?
>   

The immediate CA writes custom action data for the deferred CA. See 
"CustomActionData" in the MSI SDK for details. See the WiX source code 
for several samples. The WixGamingExtension source code is a pretty 
straightforward example of the pattern; just ignore all the Game 
Explorer COM stuff.

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