Are you using ProgId/Extenstion in your MSI? If so, Windows Installer "should" take care of this for you.
To be safe, I think I'd place this inside the InstallExecute sequence after InstallFinalize. This would ensure your binaries were on disk so any icons for the new extensions would be available for the shell to cache. -----Original Message----- From: up2date.cyb...@gmail.com [mailto:up2date.cyb...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 6:01 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Notify shell for new file associations Hi In my wix product project, I create some file associations in the registry. I have a small c++ custom action with only: ::SHChangeNotify(SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED, SHCNF_DWORD | SHCNF_FLUSH, NULL, NULL); ::Sleep(1000); // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc144154(v=vs.85).aspx My question is, when should I run this action, is it correct to do the following? <CustomAction Id="ShellNotifyAssociations" BinaryKey="MyWixCA" DllEntry="ShellNotifyAssociations" Execute="immediate" Return="ignore" /> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="ShellNotifyAssociations" After="WriteRegistryValues" /> </InstallExecuteSequence> In other words: is executing the custom action after WriteRegistryValues correct?, if not, which action should I use? thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
