问题
I am creating an installer project for one of my windows applications .
I want to make sure that an msi is installed first i.e. before the primary output is installed . The msi in question here is Microsoft VisualFoxPro OLEDB .
So if I tried adding custom action as
So if I change the file type to all files and try adding the msi , it gives an error saying
Not a valid file type for custom action
Is there any other way to do what I am trying to achieve here?
回答1:
All Visual Studio custom actions run after all the files have been installed, so you cannot use a custom action to install another MSI before your primary output is installed. Also, running an MSI-based install from a custom action is likely to fail because concurrent MSI-based installs are not allowed.
The normal way to do this is to create a bootstrapper package that installs dependencies before your MSI is installed, start here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165429.aspx
回答2:
I found an associated article that i have used previously to package a dependency (which i did not want in the pre-requisites) on codeproject
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43588445/add-custom-action-of-installing-msi-before-the-setup-in-installer-project