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. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users