I have went over the DTF references in order to use DTF in ISD 2009 installations. I have seen the next post: http://community.acresso.com/showthread.php?t=181773 which was very helpful, But one question still remains:
In ISD, How do I pass a session argument to a standard DLL CA in the CA wizard? I tried passing a handle (HANDLE, CONSTANT, MsiHandle) and call "Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.Session.FromHandle(msiHandle, true)" in my c# code, but still not able to use the session properly: Not writing to Log file as expected when calling Log method.
I could not find any reference about Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.Session.FromHandle method. Surely I am missing someting here.
InstallShield cannot provide any support specific to DTF, but I believe they build a MSI-comptable DLL. Thus you should use an MSI-style action instead of a "Standard action" (which should perhaps be called legacy action). The MSI DLL action would automatically pass just the MSIHANDLE to the entry point method.
Search my BLOG for DTF and you'll get some tutorials. You don't need the from handle method on the session class because if you consume it as a Type 1 CA as MichaelU says the session class will automatically be bound to the correct handle.
