In your custom action, create and start a new thread and then wait on it. In that new thread, initialize COM for STA mode (or just initialize OLE, which will do that for you) and then call the OpenFileDialog class. After you copy your file path out of the class, let that thread end, which will release the thread your custom action entered on, and set your property with the path you received from the user.
-----Original Message----- From: Elfe Xu [mailto:elf...@microsoft.com] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 12:57 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] No OpenFileDialog or something like that? @Johannes Thanks for the link to wixwiki. But these samples are too simple and do not show the complex usage for me to refer :( I tried to write a custom action to use OpenFileDialog class. However, the CA gets exceptions "Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it. This exception is only raised if a debugger is attached to the process." I found an old post http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Detecting-IA64 -bit-architecture-td1381532.html#a1383764 here say that I need to create a new thread to invoke the function. Since it is a old post (2008) and Joson had suggest to submit a feature requrest for this requirement, I would like to know if there is any easy way to achieve this now. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/No-OpenFileDia log-or-something-like-that-tp5216565p5219318.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
