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Ohad Horesh
Ohad Horesh

Reputation: 4390

Wix Open web page when uninstall completes

I'm using Wix3. I need to open a web page when the user uninstalls the product.
Any ideas how it can be done?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 5860

Answers (4)

SebK
SebK

Reputation: 1019

Here is what I did for both install and uninstall:

<Product>

...

<CustomAction Id="LaunchBrowserInstall" Directory="TARGETDIR" Execute="immediate" Impersonate="yes" Return="asyncNoWait" ExeCommand="explorer.exe https://www.example.com/post_install/" />

    <CustomAction Id="LaunchBrowserUninstall" Directory="TARGETDIR" Execute="immediate" Impersonate="yes" Return="asyncNoWait" ExeCommand="explorer.exe https://www.example.com/post_uninstall/" />

    <InstallExecuteSequence>
        <Custom Action="LaunchBrowserInstall" After="InstallFinalize">NOT Installed AND NOT REMOVE</Custom>
        <Custom Action="LaunchBrowserUninstall" After="InstallFinalize">REMOVE ~= "ALL"</Custom>
    </InstallExecuteSequence>

...

</Product>

Upvotes: 1

yancyn
yancyn

Reputation: 959

The example provided by FireGiant Launch the Internet doesn't work for me but it inspire me to come out my own solution as below.

The condition NOT Installed mean new installation while Installed means it only trigger when uninstall.

<CustomAction Id="LaunchBrowser" Directory="INSTALLDIR" Return="asyncNoWait" ExeCommand="explorer.exe http://www.google.com/" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
    <Custom Action="LaunchBrowser" After="InstallFinalize">Installed</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>

Upvotes: 1

saschabeaumont
saschabeaumont

Reputation: 22436

Here's a sample of the code we use, we don't actually set the URL at compile time, but update properties in the MSI post-build so this might seem a little "over engineered". We use the WiXShellExec CA and have an additional condition so that the webpage is only displayed during uninstall, and not during a major upgrade.

<Fragment>
    <Property Id="MyURL"><![CDATA[http://www.blah.blah.blah/]]></Property>
    <CustomAction Id="SetOpenURL" Property="WixShellExecTarget" Value="[MyURL]" />
    <CustomAction Id="OpenURL" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="WixShellExec" Impersonate="yes" Return="ignore" />

    <InstallExecuteSequence>
        <!-- Launch webpage during full uninstall, but not upgrade -->
        <Custom Action="SetOpenURL" After="InstallFinalize"><![CDATA[REMOVE ~= "ALL" AND NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE]]></Custom>
        <Custom Action="OpenURL" After="SetOpenURL"><![CDATA[REMOVE ~= "ALL" AND NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE]]></Custom>
    </InstallExecuteSequence>
</Fragment>

Upvotes: 21

Wim Coenen
Wim Coenen

Reputation: 66753

Add these XML elements somewhere under your <Product> element:

  <CustomAction Id="LaunchBrowser"
        ExeCommand="explorer.exe http://www.google.com"
        Directory="INSTALLDIR"
        Return="asyncNoWait" >
     REMOVE="ALL"
  </CustomAction>

  <InstallExecuteSequence>
     <Custom Action="LaunchBrowser" After="InstallValidate"/>
  </InstallExecuteSequence>

The REMOVE="ALL" condition will make sure the custom action is executed only if the product is being completely removed.

The After="InstallValidate" makes sure that the custom action is executed right after the REMOVE property value becomes known.

Upvotes: 5

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