Uninstall custom actions

Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Zack Zack. For a complete guide see resources. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. So in the chart below there are several properties that are suggested to use and the values they have for various installation scenarios: So in my case I wanted a CA that will run only on uninstalls - not upgrades, not repairs or modifies.

Improve this answer. Are the values in that chart correct? I agree with ToddRopog - The example and the truth table don't seem to agree. Is that really correct? The truth table is slightly wrong. Common conditions: alekdavis. Show 3 more comments. The 'Upgrade' column, is that during the uninstall sequence of the old version or the install sequence of the new version? NickWhaley: I haven't looked into it for a while but I believe that the "Upgrade" option is only when installing a version greater than the one already installed.

But there is a nested install that occurs within RemoveExistingProducts that has a totally different set of properties. That is what is in your 'Upgrade' column. The rest of the upgrade is identical to the 'Install' column. Show 5 more comments. Welcome to the world of installers! This does not really work. When you want to execute a fileCleaner.

At this point, all files are removed from the Installation folder. Also the fileCleaner. So you are not able to execute it via an CustomAction.

This answer is simply wrong. I am wondering about the 42 upvotes! Olly 5, 29 29 silver badges 59 59 bronze badges. Now we will see how we can create the visual web part in SharePoint using Visual Studio. When we click on a new item it will display the new window, from here you select Visual Web Part Farm Solutions Only and enter the name of the web part and click on Add. Remove user custom actions from site action, got to drop down select user custom action and click on the remove button.

This is how we can add, delete and display user custom actions in SharePoint using SharePoint server object model. Net managed object model code in SharePoint online. For one of our requirement, we need to remove the ribbon buttons. So I wrote a console application by using. Net managed object model code.

Here we are retrieving the user custom actions for the list by using the below client object model code:. The generated binaries from SampleWinService project has to be deployed to target machine using SampleInstaller project. Now, highlight SampleInstaller and click on Properties tab seen right side of the project. The below View would be seen, Now, fill the fields appropriately as per the description mentioned when you highlight the field.

Make sure you select appropriate platform using TargetPlatform. If you want to install this installer on 64 bit machine as 64 bit application then select x64 instead of x This allows user to perform upgrade operation of the product. Hence, make sure that ProductCode is changed when changing the Version, if you planned to perform upgrade. To configure that:. Also, we want to stop the service when the product is about to get uninstalled.

If we want to achieve them, we need to write custom code in SampleWinService project using appropriate class and methods like below, Override OnAfterInstall method of ProjectInstaller class and perform start operation to enable automatic windows service start after installation.

Similarly, override OnBeforeUninstall method to stop the running service at the time of product uninstallation.