Thanks John. Sorry for maybe easy questions here, but we are still new to WiX and therefore I could use a bit more information.
1. So you are placing all the dependencies into your Binary Table? 2. When you say you deploy them with a custom action, how do you extra them from the custom action table to the TEMP folder? Do you have an example code that I could review? Thanks, Tim. From: John Cooper-2 [via Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset] [mailto:ml-node+s687559n7585350...@n2.nabble.com] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 2:15 PM To: Tim Mayert Subject: Re: Custom Action triggered from Support Directory The preferred method I like to use is to: 1) carry around my binary dependencies for a custom action in the Binary Table; 2) deploy them and set them up with a preparatory custom action in a sub-bolder of the TEMP tree; 3) run the custom action itself from inside that sub-folder; 4) clean up the binaries and files after a successful run (so I don't leave anything behind for a security exploit); This is the technique I use for both my VsdbCmd custom actions and my SqlPackage custom actions which have dependencies on the vsdbcmd.exe family and the sqlpackage.exe family respectively. -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 [hidden email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7585350&i=0> www.jackhenry.com -----Original Message----- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:[hidden email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7585350&i=1>] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 2:47 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action triggered from Support Directory Burn would support this, via Payload elements. In 3.8, the current directory is set to the folder for the payload when the Package is being executed. -----Original Message----- From: TimM [mailto:[hidden email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7585350&i=2>] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 1:58 PM To: [hidden email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7585350&i=3> Subject: [WiX-users] Custom Action triggered from Support Directory Hello, We are converting over one of our InstallShield install project to WiX and would like to know if WiX has a install support folder? Our InstallShield project has a custom action that calls an app that requires 5 files to be in the same folder so that the custom action works. These files are not installed and therefore are simply ran from the Support folder. So on converting this over to WiX I was not able to find reference to an install support folder. 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