Re: Custom Action dll installed with App

It's a VB.Net assembly, so I cannot exclude it...

Thanks a lot for the answer.

regards,
Victor


"Phil Wilson" <pdjwilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> What kind of Dll is this? If it's a C++ custom action Dll you can set its
> Exclude property to True and it will get called but not installed. If it's
> an assembly, it must be installed. This is related to the fact that there
> is no built-in Windows installer support for calling custom actions in
> assemblies, and the infrastructure to load and instantiate class methods
> in Installer classes requires the assembly to be installed.
> --
> Phil Wilson
> [Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer]
> Definitive Guide to Windows Installer
> http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=280
>
> "VR" <vcreb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hi, I built a setup package with VS.Net 2003 using the "Setup Project"
>> template.
>>
>> I added a dll to perform a custom action during the setup process.
>>
>> After the setup process has finished I looked in the app folder and saw
>> that the CustomAction dll was placed there.
>>
>> Is this a normal behavior (for the uninstall process - I guess) or is
>> there something I'm missing here?
>>
>>
>> regards,
>> Victor Reboucas
>>
>
>


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