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Re: How to run cmd.exe or other exe on user's machine from a setup project?

Phil Wilson
6/5/2007 1:32:13 PM

That's correct - Visual Studio offers a subset of what's in MSI, and that
particular built-in custom action isn't available (run an existing exe on
the target system) but you can write your own custom action to run it.
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Phil Wilson
[MVP Windows Installer]

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Re: How to run cmd.exe or other exe on user's machine from a setup project?

Tony Leung
6/20/2007 12:36:46 AM

Thank you.
But how can we run an existing exe on the target system?

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Re: How to run cmd.exe or other exe on user's machine from a setup project?

Bogdan
6/20/2007 9:18:24 AM

As Phil suggested, you can create your own custom action (exe or dll) that
runs the existing exe. I use dll custom action because I need to interact
with msi. Exe custom action is somewhat easier because you do not need to
deal with msi at all and you can easily test it on its own. Your custom
action could be as simple as a single call to CreateProcess() or
ShellExecute().

Bogdan

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Re: How to run cmd.exe or other exe on user's machine ...

Vinay Verma
7/17/2007 9:11:53 PM

Well don't ask me about how I found that..thats a long story :P....

The custom action to run an exe is as follows:

1) CustomAction 66

You won't find any documentation on this Custom Action, but it is there in visual studio to run an exe.

Regards,

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