Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] GAC and call Custom Action

My custom action in install the Microsoft Enterprise Library into the gac and register all their Instrumentation classes. This is Microsoft code and they have the installers in the code so I assumed it would be easiest to just call them. Let me ask you this. I am not a c++ developer by any

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] GAC and call Custom Action

Yeah, that scenario just doesn’t work right. The problem is that Assemblies going to the GAC aren’t committed until the very end of the install. That means your InstallUtil calls (assuming InstallUtil can reach into the GAC, I’ve never tried) have to come after InstallFinalize. That means that

[WiX-users] [WiX-devs] GAC and call Custom Action

Rob,We're having issues with our mail server at work here so I don't know if you received this or not so I'm going to send to you again. I moved my email off my work account and only my personal mail so i know the messages get through. Sorry if you received it twice. Below is my answer to your

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] GAC and call Custom Action

This is actually the primary reason why I started the thread about WiX and support for installation of Windows instrumentation features. I too use Enterprise Library and have suffered with some of these very issues. All EL does is install some event sources, performance counters and WMI