Managed custom actions in Wix 3

[Krause, Henning]

Hi Rob,

> I read through that blog entry but I saw the comment about "a cleaner
> approach is to call the custom action in a separate process".  I didn't
> look at the code but everything described in the blog entry talks about
> using a DLL hosted in the Custom Action Server to create an AppDomain
> and load the managed code.  That will end up "tattooing" the Windows
> Installer Custom Action Server with the version of the .NET Framework
> your AppDomain was hosted by.  Then you can hit the GAC and load issues
> mentioned in my blog entry.

Yes you are right here. My C++ skills are not good enough to implement this
solution. But since all the stuff in that entry is full open source - maybe
someone jumps on the train and implements some sort of IPC for that. I could
certainly do the part on the managed side...

Kind regards,
Henning Krause


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