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Cliff Harris - 22 Apr 2004 18:51 GMT

I'm not sure this question belongs in this group... but I'll try...
I am trying to define a custom action in an installer project to run an
external executable.. but I can't seem to find where to do it at. It seems
the only exctuables I can run are those that are actually included in my
installer.

As a real-world example, what if I want to run a built-in Windows 2000
command such as "cacls.exe"... how would I do this from custom actions?

Thanks.

-Cliff

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Patrick Baker [MSFT] - 22 Apr 2004 23:51 GMT

How are you attemping to find and execute the "EXE"?

Patrick Baker - Visual Basic/Deployment Quality Assurance Team
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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>From: "Cliff Harris" <hersh@myrealbox.com>
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>-Cliff

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Cliff Harris - 23 Apr 2004 04:53 GMT

It's a common exe that I know will exist on the machine (specifically, it's
the command line utility called "cacls.exe")...

I just want to be able to specify that I want to run this external exe and
pass it some parameters...
I'm about to just create a bat file to execute it and include that in my
setup unless someone has a better option...

Thanks,
-Cliff

> How are you attemping to find and execute the "EXE"?
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deko - 23 Apr 2004 10:37 GMT

> I'm not sure this question belongs in this group... but I'll try...
> I am trying to define a custom action in an installer project to run an
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> -Cliff

While we're on the topic of installation, I have a general question about
using Visual Studio for creating installation routines.

I'm new to VS, and have not created an installer before (other than an msi).
I have both VS.NET and VS 6.0 - which one should I use to create an
installer for an Access MDE? I assume I would use VS.Net 6.0 since the MDE
and the installation has nothing to do with the .NET Framework - is this
correct? The MDE in question uses Access 2002/2003 file format and
integrates with the other Office Systems applications, so I want the install
routine to check the installed Office components and abort if the
appropriate version (2002 or higher) and components (Word, Outlook, Excel)
are not installed, as well as create various directories.

Can you help me get started in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

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bp - 13 Jul 2004 04:03 GMT

Did you ever get an answer for this? I am also interested in installers and have never done one before. If you have any information on how to get started I sure would appreciate it.

Becky

> > I'm not sure this question belongs in this group... but I'll try...
> > I am trying to define a custom action in an installer project to run an
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> Can you help me get started in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

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