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Creating Custom Action for WIX Written in Managed Code without Votive

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Creating Custom Action for WIX written in managed code without Votive
using System;
using Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller;
using System.IO;

namespace MyCustomAction
{
	public class SimpleCustomAction
	{

		[CustomAction]
		public static ActionResult MySimpleAction(Session session)
		{
			try
			{
			    session.Message(InstallMessage.Warning, 
                     new Record(new string[] 
                     {
                        string.Format("INSTALLLOCATION{0}", session.CustomActionData["INSTALLLOCATION"])
                     }));

                session.Message(InstallMessage.Warning,
                     new Record(new string[] 
                     {
                        string.Format("Another Value{0}", session.CustomActionData["AnotherValue"])
                     }));
			}
			catch (Exception exception)
			{
			    session.Log(exception.ToString());
				return ActionResult.Failure;
			}
			return ActionResult.Success;
		}

	}
}

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