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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / Setup / March 2007Custom Action on uninstall
My setup contains custom action(.net exe) to be launched on uninstall. If after installation exe containing custom action is removed uninstall failed with file not found exception. I suggest that i have to add condition that checks existing of custom action exe How can i do this? Thanks in advance, Sergey You don't have to physically install a program used for a custom action - you can set its Exclude property so it's not visible to users (it's in the cached MSI file and is run from there).  SignaturePhil Wilson [Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer] > My setup contains custom action(.net exe) to be launched on uninstall. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thanks in advance, > Sergey > You don't have to physically install a program used for a custom action - > you can set its Exclude property so it's not visible to users (it's in the [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Phil thank you forthe answer. But seems it doesn't work for mee. I get following compile rror after excluding custom action .exe from setup: Building file 'D:\temp\Setup1\Setup1\Debug\SergeySetup.msi'... ERROR: Unable to build custom action named 'TestInstaller.exe' from object 'TestInstaller.exe' because the object is marked as excluded. Any tip ? Thanks > > You don't have to physically install a program used for a custom action - > > you can set its Exclude property so it's not visible to users (it's in the [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Setting exlude to true only works for ummanaged CustomAction, but my CustomAction is .net assembly with installer class. I read your article "http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/ visual-studio-setup---projects-and-custom-actions/" it's helpfull but not in my case. Ah ok, unmanaged custom actions only. That's a pain. SignaturePhil Wilson [Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer] >> >> > You don't have to physically install a program used for a custom [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > visual-studio-setup---projects-and-custom-actions/" it's helpfull but > not in my case. > Ah ok, unmanaged custom actions only. That's a pain. > -- [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Ok thanks lot, i'll try to figure out another solution.
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