Summary

Synopsis

This article explains how to debug a managed code custom action by attaching the msiexec process to Visual Studio 2010.

Discussion

2. Build a debug version of your solution

3. Call the above method in a managed code custom action and rebuild your msi package

4. Run your MSI package until the MessageBox from the custom action gets displayed

5. Open Visual Studio and from the Debug/Tools menu, select ?Attach to Process? option. Attach the msiexec.exe process that has the type Managed

6. Add a breakpoint in the source code

7. Click the OK button to dismiss the message box

8. You should now be able to debug the custom action

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