'MSI' Tag

• How to target 32bit and 64bit a .NET applications with WiX and separate MSI packages

  December 28, 2009

  Target 32bit and 64bit .NET applications This post will explain how you can build msi packages using WiX for both 32bit and 64bit platforms.  The goal is to create 2 different msi packages. One for 64bit systems, which will install the program in to c:\Program Files on 64bit, and another msi package that will install [...]

  posted in Code by Magnus Johansson

• DEBUG: Error 2769: Custom Action install did not close 1 MSIHANDLEs.

  December 11, 2008

  You may have seen this strange error when trying to install your MSI when you have developed a managed custom action DLL in Visual Studio 2005 / 2008? If you execute the MSI with detailed logging, like this: MSIEXEC /i "<YOURMSI>.msi" /L*v "InstallLog.txt" You end up with an error message that is similar to this [...]

  posted in Blog by Magnus Johansson

• How to debug Custom Actions in a MSI setup package

  December 10, 2008

  So you have come to the conclusion that you will need to debug your custom action code. How do you do it? Well, it’s very simple, just add the following line in your custom action code: Debugger.Break(); And now when you launch the MSI package, it will break and prompt you with the following dialog: [...]

  posted in Blog by Magnus Johansson