I thought the DTF custom actions had a message call that ultimately uses MsiProcessMessage(), the point being that it automatically won't show the message if the UI is missing. Maybe it's Session.Message or something like that. --------------- Phil Wilson
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Harold Wood (H10 Capital) <v-wow...@microsoft.com> wrote: > If the operator does the uninstall from the control console is that a silent > uninstall? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pavan Konduru [mailto:pavan.kond...@accelrys.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:19 AM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI on uninstall > > The condition should be : > > REMOVE = "ALL" AND UILevel <> "2" > > This way it wouldn't cause issues with silent installation. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Levi Wilson [mailto:l...@leviwilson.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:05 AM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI on uninstall > > That wouldn't work for a silent installation if you did it across the > network, would it? I think you'd end up with a dialog box that you couldn't > do anything with. I could be wrong. > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Pavan Konduru > <pavan.kond...@accelrys.com>wrote: > >> Hi Harold, >> >> The uninstall cannot have standard Wix Dialogs from what I know. We >> had a similar requirement and I used a custom action (c#) to pop-up a "OK" >> message box. >> Something like this. Schedule this action only during >> uninstall(REMOVE=ALL) in the installExecute sequence. >> >> [CustomAction] >> public static ActionResult UsrDelPrompt(Session session) >> { >> string location = session["CustomActionData"]; >> session.Log(location); >> >> >> DialogResult dialogResult = MessageBox.Show(new Form() >> { TopMost = true }, "Message box content " + Environment.NewLine + >> location, "Header message for box", MessageBoxButtons.OK); >> >> return ActionResult.Success; >> } >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Harold Wood (H10 Capital) [mailto:v-wow...@microsoft.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:25 AM >> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >> Subject: [WiX-users] UI on uninstall >> >> I need to throw a message on the screen during uninstall. 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