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Ashok Subramanian - 25 May 2004 20:56 GMT

Hello,

is it possible to have a custom action in a windows installer as a
.NET class library? I have already written a custom action as a
console application and it works fine but my problem is the console
application throws up the console window and I don't need it. Even
when I get the window and hide it using
ShowWindow(), I still see the window for a second. I could write the
custom action as a windows installer library but I have a limitation
in my environment that prevents it.

Thanks for the help
Ashok

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Phil Wilson - 26 May 2004 01:32 GMT

No, you can't. You can do it with Installer classes, but they are called
using a wrapper DLL to call them. You might be able to do your custom action
with VBScript though.

Keep in mind that you're seeing the command prompt because it's a console
application. Why not just go to your project properties Output Type and
change it from Console Application to Windows Application?

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> Hello,
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Ashok Subramanian - 26 May 2004 22:54 GMT

Thanks, that works great for me. VBScript is a little limiting for me,
so this is great.

> No, you can't. You can do it with Installer classes, but they are called
> using a wrapper DLL to call them. You might be able to do your custom action
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> > Thanks for the help
> > Ashok

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