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I need to call a form during the commit phase of the installation in C#.
So i add a primary output of my project in the commit phase.
Now if any error occurs i want to do rollback of the installation from my project's form.
How can i do this.

Posted 13-Aug-10 21:54pm

markand911

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Abhishek Sur · Answer 1 · 2010-08-14T00:45:00

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Add Project output in Rollback phase as well.
It is bettter to handle this using Installer class, which provides both Install and Uninstall interfaces.

See this :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d9k65z2d.aspx[^]

Posted 14-Aug-10 0:45am

Abhishek Sur

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markand911 16-Aug-10 0:57am

Thanx Abhishek for this link.
I read it but i didnt find any solution.
I need to call a form during the commit phase of the installation.
So i add a primary output of my project in the commit phase.
Now if any error occurs i want to do rollback of the installation from my project's form.
How can i do this.

Abhishek Sur 18-Aug-10 16:18pm

Did you tried Custom installation forms ?