WiX: Extracting Binary-string in Custom Action yields string like "???good data"
- by leiflundgren
I just found a weird behaviour when attempting to extract a string from the Binary-table in the MSI.
I have a file containing "Hello world", the data I get is "???Hello world". (Literary question mark.)
Is this as intended?
Will it always be exactly 3 characters in the beginning?
Regards
Leif
Sample code:
[CustomAction]
public static ActionResult CustomAction2(Session session)
{
View v = session.Database.OpenView("SELECT `Name`,`Data` FROM `Binary`");
v.Execute();
Record r = v.Fetch();
int datalen = r.GetDataSize("Data");
System.IO.Stream strm = r.GetStream("Data");
byte[] rawData = new byte[datalen];
int res = strm.Read(rawData, 0, datalen);
strm.Close();
String s = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(rawData);
// s == "???Hello World"
return ActionResult.Success;
}
