in my recent project, i have to launch an exe from inf. when my company's device is plugged into win 7 system, PnP service will search device driver from Windows Update Server and install it automatically. on the last step, i must start a app. how can i do that from inf installaton? Please help!!! i tried writing a stub ocx and call shellexecute in dllregisterserver. when i register it manually using regsvr32 command, i works, but it doesn't work on automatic installation(shellexecute succeeds but nothing happens). it seems that system forbiddens it. Could anybody give me some advice?Many thanks!
A:
It is forbidden (or at least deprecated) to call executables from an inf installation file.
WHQL tests will fail, if you have such a line in your inf file.
What you can do, is have a process already running, which registers itself to wait on a device interface to appear.
Christopher
2010-07-05 10:29:39
A:
If you want register a DLL inside of INF-based installation you can use RegisterDlls directive in the DefaultInstall section (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff547356.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff547460.aspx).
Oleg
2010-07-07 16:25:22