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[giugio]

hy.
I wold set a property programmatically in c++,and I have create this .dll test custom action:
UINT __stdcall setProperty(MSIHANDLE paraname)
//0: ALLUSERS
{
MsiSetProperty(paraname,"CustomAct","giugio");
return ERROR_SUCCESS;
}
I use visual studio 2003.
if i set the type of this dll custom action to 1(with orca) catch this errror:
The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this
package.This may indicate a problem whit this package.the error code is 2721.
why?
how i resolve?
the property CustomAct is the name of the successive custom action , where i get the value with msigetpropety(msiinstance,"CustomActionData");
THanks;

[Stefan Krueger]

2721 = Custom action not found in Binary table stream.

And: as fas as I know, Visual Studio only creates deferred custom actions. You cannot set properties in such actions. This is a limitation of Visual Studio.

Visual Studio has a field in the custom action properties that lets you pass properties to a deferred custom action, i.e. VS does this stuff for you in the background.