Windows Installer validation
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I am attempting to write an orca tool using VB .Net as an education in Windows Installer. I have got the first part of my project done which is to open an MSI and display in the various tables and I am able to browse through each table and see all its entries however I then wanted to be able to validate that MSI and output the results into a seperate Window, like Orca does.
I have been able to open the DEICE.CUB file and merge this into my opened MSI, which I believe is what you have to do to begin validation however from what i can tell I have to then run each custom action in the .CUB file agaisnt the merge MSI file. It is at this point that I am stuck and I am unable to find any information about what to do, as with anything I have spent hours searching through google but you need to know the write term to search for and im guessing im either dont have the correct words OR there isnt an article out there.
Any help appreciated :)
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I am attempting to write an orca tool using VB .Net as an education in Windows Installer. I have got the first part of my project done which is to open an MSI and display in the various tables and I am able to browse through each table and see all its entries however I then wanted to be able to validate that MSI and output the results into a seperate Window, like Orca does.
I have been able to open the DEICE.CUB file and merge this into my opened MSI, which I believe is what you have to do to begin validation however from what i can tell I have to then run each custom action in the .CUB file agaisnt the merge MSI file. It is at this point that I am stuck and I am unable to find any information about what to do, as with anything I have spent hours searching through google but you need to know the write term to search for and im guessing im either dont have the correct words OR there isnt an article out there.
Any help appreciated :)
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Posted by:
AngelD
14 years ago
I guess you could convert the VB6 code from the below link
http://msmvps.com/blogs/Michael/archive/2004/10/20/16219.aspx
However if you used C# instead you could just download the WiX source as they have already created C# "wrappers" for what you're after.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/Michael/archive/2004/10/20/16219.aspx
However if you used C# instead you could just download the WiX source as they have already created C# "wrappers" for what you're after.
Posted by:
Inabus
14 years ago
Thanks for that, got me on a right track with what to search for. I am able to now merge 2 databases, validate it and show the ice messages internal to the scanned msi I now need to change the event handler to be able to take those internally generated ice messages and convert them to a readable display.
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Posted by:
AngelD
14 years ago
I don't know VB6 but I guess you would need to handle the MSICallBack delegation (callback) to listen when it raises one of the events: OnError, OnWarning or OnInfo. The events arguments should have the ICE# (iICE) and ICE message (sDesc).
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