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Event firing order in VS.NET deployment projects

Hi,

I am noticing that when overriding the installer class for the following methods:

OnBeforeInstall
Install
Commit
OnAfterInstall

that the order in which these methods are called seem counterintuitive. The order in which they are being called is:

OnBeforeInstall
OnAfterInstall
Install
Commit

Why is OnAfterInstall being called before the Install method?

Thanks,

Barton

Barton Friedland Monday, September 17, 2007 12:40 AM

Hi, Barton,

Based on my understanding, the executionorder of the installer methods is confusing, isn't it?

In my point of view, they are just working as designed.

I guess you wrote something like this

Code Snippet

protected override void OnBeforeInstall(System.Collections.IDictionary savedState)

{

base.OnBeforeInstall(savedState);

System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("Before");

}

public override void Install(System.Collections.IDictionary stateSaver)

{

base.Install(stateSaver);

System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("Install");

}

protected override void OnAfterInstall(System.Collections.IDictionary savedState)

{

base.OnAfterInstall(savedState);

System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("After");

}

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.install.installer.onbeforeinstall.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.install.installer.onafterinstall.aspx

Hope this helps,

Regards

Yu Guo �?MSFT Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:51 AM

Hi, Barton,

Based on my understanding, the executionorder of the installer methods is confusing, isn't it?

In my point of view, they are just working as designed.

I guess you wrote something like this

Code Snippet

protected override void OnBeforeInstall(System.Collections.IDictionary savedState)

{

base.OnBeforeInstall(savedState);

System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("Before");

}

public override void Install(System.Collections.IDictionary stateSaver)

{

base.Install(stateSaver);

System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("Install");

}

protected override void OnAfterInstall(System.Collections.IDictionary savedState)

{

base.OnAfterInstall(savedState);

System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("After");

}

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.install.installer.onbeforeinstall.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.install.installer.onafterinstall.aspx

Hope this helps,

Regards

Yu Guo �?MSFT Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:51 AM

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