I have been searching the boards and found a document someone wrote on how to do this. It has helped alot, but it seems I am still missing a critical piece in making this work.
01515: (Unknown): InstallShield: Loaded CLR successfully 01516: (Unknown): InstallShield: Deferred action requested property MsiHiddenProperties not provided by CustomActionData 01517: (Unknown): InstallShield: Deferred property name="NativeStorage" 01518: (Unknown): InstallShield: Deferred property connstring="TestConnectionString" 01519: (Unknown): InstallShield: Deferred property filename="{ProgramFilesFolder}\Serveron\SA View\Serveron Client.config" 01520: (Unknown): InstallShield: Deferred property encrypt="true" 01521: (Unknown): InstallShield: Loading Assembly [#customactions.dll] 01522: (Unknown): InstallShield: Resolving assembly filekey [#customactions.dll]. 01523: (Unknown): InstallShield: Deferred action requested property #customactions.dll not provided by CustomActionData 01524: (Unknown): InstallShield: Could not resolve [#customactions.dll]; is "#customactions.dll=" part of CustomActionData?01525: (Unknown): InstallShield: Unable to load managed custom action assembly [#customactions.dll] 01526: (Unknown): CustomAction customactions.dll returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
I am not sure how to get the path property to be replaces correctly and more importantly, why the CustomActionData doesn't have the values required to run the code.
Did you specify all the CustomActionData you need for this deferred action? Generally if the action is called MyDeferredAction, and like yours it uses a managed assembly installed with the product, you need to place a SetProperty custom action that precedes it, setting the property MyDeferredAction to include #customactions.dll="[#customactions.dll]"
In your case, it looks like it would be at least:[CODE]#customactions.dll="[#customactions.dll]" name="NativeStorage" connstring="TestConnectionString" filename="{ProgramFilesFolder}\Serveron\SA View\Serveron Client.config" encrypt="true"[/CODE]
Right; the combination of an assembly installed on the target machine, and a deferred action requires this. Otherwise there is no way for the assembly to be located, as the usual MSI APIs for this do not work in a deferred action.
I am having a managed dll and i need to pass some arguments to it while calling it..the arguments happen to be some poperties and i am calling the managed code custom action in deferred execution.i am a bit confused about how to pass a customActionData as paramers for a managed dll
some one please look into this and show some light into this. :confused: thank you in advance
