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wixcustom-actionwix3.5

How to link custom action to control event

I'm studying Wix to build product installer. I've customized the UI successfully but be wondering how to link a custom action to control event (i.e PushButton).

I have 2 projects:

Product.Wix.CustomActions

[CustomAction]
public static ActionResult CustomAction1(Session session)
{
 session.Log("Begin CustomAction1");
 MessageBox.Show("CustomActions1");
 return ActionResult.Success;
}

Product.Wix.Setup (referenced to Product.Wix.CustomActions project). In Setup.wxs, I have declared a custom action:

<Binary Id="CustomActions" SourceFile="..\Product.Wix.CustomActions\bin\Debug\Product.Wix.CustomActions.CA.dll" />
<CustomAction Id='Action1' BinaryKey='CustomActions' DllEntry='CustomAction1' Execute='immediate' Return='check' />

I have a custom dialog with Connect button and wiring to the action as below:

<Control Id="Connect" Type="PushButton" X="325" Y="75" Width="30" Height="17" Text="...">
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="Action1">1</Publish>
</Control>

It does not work as I expected it should pop-up a message box when clicking on the Connect button.

Solution

  • The log file shows my custom action assemblies could not be loaded properly. The reason is I have unintentionally removed the section:

    <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" />
</startup>

    from the config file. Added it back and everything works now.