Action Sequences (MSI)

Introduction

The Action Sequences page defines the actions that the MSI installer performs during installation and removal of your product. It is organized in a Windows Explorer-like fashion: on the left is a tree that with the action sequences and on the right the contents of the currently selected sequence are shown in a list. Below the two, the attributes of the currently selected sequence or action are displayed.

Implementation notes

An MSI installer database contains tables for each action sequence, plus a separate CustomAction table that contains all custom actions. In Tarma ExpertInstall, the custom actions appear in the action sequences that execute them; there is no separate custom action list. Instead, Tarma ExpertInstall generates the required CustomAction table when the MSI database is built from the project.