According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/aa368071.aspx only EXE custom actions can be asynchronous/nowait.
> From: afor...@cmu.edu > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 18:24:23 -0400 > Subject: [WiX-users] How to quietly execute CA with admin privileges > asyncronously? > > The only way I have found thus far to quietly run a CustomAction with admin > privileges given to the installer is using this (taken from > http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/qtexec.htm): > > <CustomAction Id="QtExecDeferredExampleWithProperty_Cmd" > Property="QtExecDeferredExampleWithProperty" > Value=""[#MyExecutable.exe]"" Execute="immediate"/> > <CustomAction Id="QtExecDeferredExampleWithProperty" BinaryKey="WixCA" > DllEntry="CAQuietExec" > Execute="deferred" Return="check" Impersonate="no"/> > . > . > . > <InstallExecuteSequence> > <Custom Action="QtExecDeferredExampleWithProperty_Cmd" > After="CostFinalize"/> > <Custom Action="QtExecDeferredExampleWithProperty" > After="TheActionYouWantItAfter"/> > </InstallExecuteSequence> > > However, I want to run such a CA asynchronously, but setting > Return="asyncNoWait" returns a candle/light error requiring the ExeCommand > argument be set, and if I do that, then it complains further: > > C:\MyClientPackage_v1.0.0.wxs(553) : error CNDL0023 : The > CustomAction/@DllEntry attribute cannot coexist with a previously specified > attribute on this element. The CustomAction element may only have one of the > following target attributes specified at a time: DllEntry, Error, ExeCommand, > JScriptCall, Script, Value, or VBScriptCall. > > So this doesn't seem to be able to work. Any ideas how else we can quietly > execute CA with admin privileges asynchronously? > > Alain > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
