Implementing Custom Action in Visual Studio 2022

[lucamontin]

Hello,

Im currently working on my Custom Action, and i now that it works, because I used to implement my wix project in visual studio code, and it worked perfectly.

Now I copy-pasted my custom action in my Visual studio project. It Compiles, but when i execute the .msi file the custom action is not being executed (i checked the logfile).
Did i forget to do something? maybe in the settings of VS? Im using WixQuietExec and I already added the extension:

This is my Custom action:

<Wix xmlns="http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs">
	<Fragment>

		<SetProperty Id="RunPowerShellScript"
            Value="&quot;[SYS_NATIVE]System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe&quot; -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File &quot;[InstallationScriptsFolder]installADAndScheduleTasks.ps1&quot; -Verb runAs"
            Before="RunPowerShellScript" Sequence="execute"/>

        <!-- CustomAction to execute the command using WixQuietExec -->
        <CustomAction Id="RunPowerShellScript"
              BinaryRef="Wix4UtilCA_$(sys.BUILDARCHSHORT)" 
              DllEntry="WixQuietExec"
              Execute="deferred" 
              Impersonate="no" 
              Return="check" />

    
        <InstallExecuteSequence>
            <Custom Action="RunPowerShellScript" After="InstallFiles" Condition="NOT REMOVE"></Custom>
        </InstallExecuteSequence>


	</Fragment>


</Wix>`

Im slowly thinking im getting crazy.
Thanks for the help.

Edit: When i change the After attribute in Custom to "Install" it compiles too but same here, no execution of the custom action during install.

[bevanweiss]

Your command line looks wrong.
"[SYS_NATIVE]System32\...

What is SYS_NATIVE here?
Do you mean %windir%\Sysnative? which is only applicable on a 64bit OS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/file-system-redirector

When asking for help, always provide the log (not just some untrustworthy statement that you looked in the log).