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Uisng .NET InstallUtilLib

Started by dshimel , Feb 10 2005 21:04

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dshimel

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Posted 10 February 2005 - 21:04

I have a .NET application written in C# that runs in the .NET CLR. I must make a call into this app as a deferred custom action. C# give a class called "Installer" that can be inherited, for just this purpose.

Microsoft's Installer only calls machine language .dlls, not C# code running in the CLR... To bridge this gap, .NET comes with a file called InstallUtilLib.dll. It is an unmanaged, machine language that spawns a .NET CLR and passes the call along.

So, here is my problem.

I've found an okay site that describes how to call this beast. It is WIX specific (I use Wise), but it give the basic info.
http://blogs.msdn.co.../08/253831.aspx

Basically, set a property with the exact same name as the custom action... Then call the custom action from the binary table with a deffered custom action type. The property gets passed in as the dll's CustomActionData.


So, what is the point?

Well, I think this article is specific to .NET 1.1. Our application only runs under .NET 1.0. When I set the property as described in the article, InstallUtilLib throws an error:

Action 12:19:14: InstallAppCatalog.
Error 1001. InstallUtilLib.dll:ClrCreateManagedInstance (hr=0x80070002): The system cannot find the file specified.


What this is telling me is that it isn't finding the dlr that I'm trying to execute....

Here is my parameter that contains the CustomActionData:
InstallAppCatalog = /installtype=notransaction /action=uninstall /LogFile= /ApplicationId=0 /ApplicationName="Architecture Services" /ApplicationNamespace="XXX.Architecture" /MachineName=TEST01 /InstanceName="defaultl" /ProductName="XXX Portfolio" /ApplicationBase="C:\Program Files\XXX\Architecture\bin\\" /InstanceVersion="1.5.3.4" "C:\Program Files\XXX\Architecture\bin\XXX.Architecture.ApplicationCatalog.Installer.dll" "C:\Program Files\XXX\Architecture\bin\Installer.config"

Only edits done to the above string was chainging company's name to XXX for security.

Most of the parameters are ignored by InstallUpdateUtil, and just passed to the dll that you reference... The key is that the fist entry following white space that does not have a "/" is the .dll to be called and the second is the config file. For this reason, any property that could have an embedded space, must be surrounded in quotes, which I've done. The double backslash at the end of the one path variable is aslso said to be required.

Well, I've confirmed that the paths are correct (better be since they are populated i the set paramater custom action using #[filename]. These files are on the system, in the correct directory, when the deferred custom action is called.

Unless I'm really brain dead, the .dll name is the first non-"/" lead value.



SO, my question. Anyone know of ANY documentation of InstallUtilLib that is specific to the version that shipped with .NET 1.0? Anyone sucessfully use this before? Any other advice appreciated.

dshimel

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Posted 16 February 2005 - 23:56

I found the answer myself.

Hope my beating my head against the wall can help others.

As I expected, there are differences between the InstallUtilLib.dll that shipped with the 1.0 .NET framework and 1.1 /NET framework. You need to know which version of the CLR will be on the systme that your MSI is running against.

My first attempt at using InstallUtilLib resulted in: System.BadImageFormatException

In this case, the error was that I was using the 1.0 UnstallUtilLib.dll against 1.1 Framework.

Later, I flip-flopped my error causing error:
InstallUtilLib.dll:ClrCreateManagedInstance (hr=0x80070002): The system cannot find the file specified.

In this case I was using the 1.1 InstallUtilLib against the 1.0 Framework.

AND, there is a SLIGHT parameter change between the 1.0 and 1.1 Custom Action Data.

If you follow the link in my original post, you'll find this:
Value=' /installtype=notransaction /action=install /LogFile= /BinDir="[TARGETDIR]\" /Package="[ProductName]" "[#InstallerFile]" "[#ConfigFile]"' />

In this case, BinDir and Package are specific to his kit, and are not "standard". The required entries are:
/installtype=notransaction
/action=[one of install/uninstall/rollback/commit]
/LogFile= (I tried supplying a log file name, but did not see that a log was ever produced)

The first entry without a prepended "/" is the dll to have InstallUtilLib call.

The second entry without a leading "/" is the difference between 1.0 and 1.1 of .NET. For 1.1, a config file is required. For 1.0, DO NOT include the name of a config file.

The file that Visual Studio 2003 spits out for the 1.1 config contains:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
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