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wixcustom-action
user448516
user448516

Reputation:

WixSilentExec does not work

I've got to silently run some cmd line on uninstall. I'm trying to use WixSilentExec but it does not work. What is the problem ?

    <Property Id="WixSilentExecCmdLine" Value='cmd /C "rmdir /s/q [DataBaseDir]"' Hidden="yes"/>
    <CustomAction Id="RemoveDataDir" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="WixSilentExec" Execute="immediate" Return="ignore"/>

    <InstallExecuteSequence>
        <Custom Action="RemoveDataDir" Before="RemoveFiles">DELETEDATADIR="1" OR FORCEDELETE="1") AND (NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE) AND (REMOVE="ALL")</Custom>
    </InstallExecuteSequence>

    <Directory Id="DataBaseDir" Name="$(var.DataBaseDirName)">
          <Component Id="DataBaseDir.dir" Guid="*">
               <CreateFolder/>
          </Component>
    </Directory>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2174

Answers (1)

user448516
user448516

Reputation:

  1. The name cmd can not be resolved and quoted executable name should be used instead :"cmd.exe"

  2. SetProperty should be used as the installer can not resolve [DataBaseDir]

  3. Sequence execute should be set

    <Property Id="RemoveDataDir" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="WixQuietExec" Execute="immediate" Return="ignore"/>
<SetProperty Id="WixQuietExecCmdLine" Before="RemoveDataDir" Sequence="execute" Value='"cmd.exe" /c rmdir /s/q "[DataBaseDir]"'>1</SetProperty>

Upvotes: 3

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