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WiX: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

You're reading from  WiX: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849513722
Pages 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

WiX: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Getting Started 2. Creating Files and Directories 3. Putting Properties and AppSearch to Work 4. Improving Control with Launch Conditions and Installed States 5. Understanding the Installation Sequence 6. Adding a User Interface 7. Using UI Controls 8. Tapping into Control Events 9. Working from the Command Line 10. Accessing the Windows Registry 11. Controlling Windows Services 12. Localizing Your Installer 13. Upgrading and Patching

Adding conditions to custom actions


After you've defined your custom actions and scheduled them into either the InstallUISequence or the InstallExecuteSequence, you have the option of adding conditions to them. These are added as the inner text of the Custom element and prevent the action from running if the condition is false. A common use for this is to only run the action during installation by using the "NOT Installed" condition.

<InstallExecuteSequence>
   <Custom Action="myCustomAction" After="InstallInitialize">
     NOT Installed
   </Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>

Other common conditions are "Installed", which is true if the software is already installed, and "REMOVE", which contains a list of features that are being uninstalled.

You can also use the action state and installed state of features and components or check the values of properties. Look back to Chapter 4 to review the discussion about these types of conditional statements. It's a good idea to...

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