Uninstall Custom Action not getting called. -- visual studio .net setup

TheClothCat
2/13/2007 2:31:01 AM

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately your suggestion seems to have had a
distastrous effect. When I ran msiexec as suggested it hung with a DOS window
open called something like MSI40 - I can't remember the number.

Now I cannot install or uninstall my software from within Visual Studio or
outside it, even if I do a full rebuild.

Any suggestions?

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TheClothCat
2/13/2007 8:15:01 AM

Phil,

Further to my last post, I have now got my setup and deployment project
working again. That still leaves my original problem though. Is it likely to
be one of the msiexec command line parameters that caused your suggestion to
fail?

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Phil Wilson
2/14/2007 7:35:29 AM

It's not likely, no. People do uninstalls with logging all the time. Your
system might have an issue. Is your Win32 program a console app? If it is,
that's where the command prompt window is coming from. It's showing that
and then your app can't run.
My vote is still dependencies. If you haven't got the c run time available
then your program won't load. Visual Studio 2005 C++ apps require sxs 8.0
CRT or statically linked. That's why setup projects have a prerequisites
option to install the redist.
--
Phil Wilson
[Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer]
Definitive Guide to Windows Installer
http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=280

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TheClothCat
2/15/2007 7:30:04 AM

Phil,

Thanks for the reply.

My Win32 program is a console app which explains the command prompt window.
When I run the console app as custom action after the Install or Commit
phases of installation it works perfectly.

This must mean there is something different about the Uninstall phase. And
before you ask the question, the console app does not depend on anything else
that Uninstall could remove before running the console app. The console app
runs perfectly when started manually from a command prompt window.

This is why I am suspicious that something is wrong with custom actions in
Uninstall in VStudio 2003 SP1.

Do you known if anyone has done this successfully i.e. run a console app as
a custom action after the Uninstall phase in VStudio 2003 SP1?

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Phil Wilson
2/15/2007 12:11:14 PM

You'll have to be suspicious of everything, including your debugging code. I
ran this program as an uninstall custom action fine, VS 2003, bare bones
program with an include of windows.h for MessageBox.

#include "stdafx.h"

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
MessageBox (NULL, TEXT("MSG"), TEXT ("SOMETHING"), MB_OK);
return 0;
}

--
Phil Wilson
[Microsoft MVP Windows Installer]
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TheClothCat
2/19/2007 3:33:53 AM

Hi Phil,

Problem solved. I created a new console project and put your bare bones code
in it and it worked fine as an uninstall custom action. So next I created
another new console project and copied my code from my problematic program
into the new one. Again it works fine!

I don't know what the actual problem was and I don't really want to spend
the time tracking it down. The only things I can think of are that there was
some weird corruption in the one of the project files or maybe some project
setting.

Many thanks for your suggestions.

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H
3/15/2007 12:00:00 AM

I have a similar problem with VS2005. I have an installer class DLL which will
run a DOS batch file fine on Commit. When I use it to create an Uninstall
custom action, the DOS batch file is not run.

The reason I have to run DOS batch files is because I am installing two COM
libraries. Neither of these get registered with a code base when I use the
vsd*COM flags on the Project Output or explicit dlls. So I have to run a
manual regasm as a workaround. As I said this works fine on Commit, however
the unregister batch file never gets run on UnInstall.

Regards

H

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