If you are truly succeeding in launching your app from a deferred CA that isn't impersonating, it is running in Session 0 on a non-UI desktop (and without a user profile), so you can't ever see/interact with it. If you place a "requireAdministrator" manifest for UAC in your app, you might succeed in launching it the "normal" way whereupon it will independently prompt for elevation on its own (if needed). Of course, that means it will have to prompt for elevation every time it is ever run, which may not be what you want.
<echo all the usual warnings about evil-reg, oh, sorry, self-reg> -----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:26 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] So how does one run installed executable after the install finishes? Tony Juricic wrote: > While there are quite a few samples of appropriate Custom Action (including some posted here) none of them work for me. I either get an error code 1631 or no error code (see log example below where it appears that app was launched ok) but I see no application UI (it is a WPF app). > > Is there some definitive reference for this? > > I would prefer immediate action but it appears it must be deferred. I'd consider it unlikely that you can run a WPF app from a deferred custom action service. > <CustomAction Id=" CA_MYAction" Impersonate="no" HideTarget="no" FileKey="ACTION.EXE" ExeCommand="/install" Execute="deferred" Return="asyncNoWait" /> > <insert all the normal warnings about self-reg> -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
