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Nevikski - 25 May 2006 16:40 GMT

Hi
Using VS2005 Depoyment Project
I can see how you can set a file to only install by using a custom dialog
box and button property but is there a way of using a custome dialog box to
actually make a external file run

Thanks in advance

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Phil Wilson - 25 May 2006 20:09 GMT

Not sure exactly what you mean - you can run an external exe from a custom
action, as long as you know where that external exe is. Or the external exe
can be something you installed that you can run as a custom action. It's
not clear to me where a dialog box comes in. If you want to give the user a
choice, you can add one of the pre-defined dialogs in the UI sequence (like
a checkboxes dialog) they can set a property such as CHECKBOXA1 to (I think)
a value of 0 or 1. Then you make [CHECKBOXA1]=1 a condition on the custom
action. I would actually make the condition [CHECKBOXA1]=1 and Not
Installed so that a repair doesn't run the custom action again.

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> Hi
> Using VS2005 Depoyment Project
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> Thanks in advance

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Starbuck - 26 May 2006 14:39 GMT

Thanks

That was what I needed

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> Not sure exactly what you mean - you can run an external exe from a custom
> action, as long as you know where that external exe is. Or the external
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>> Thanks in advance

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