Re: [WiX-users] Register capicom.dll fails

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
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Re: [WiX-users] Register capicom.dll fails

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Torsten Rudnick Sent: 13 October 2006 16:06 To: Tony Hoyle Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Register capicom.dll fails > By the way how do I test wheather the capicom.dll

Re: [WiX-users] Register capicom.dll fails

2006-10-13 Thread Torsten Rudnick
Well that is not really an installer. It is only a selfextracting archive which creates a folder with the capicom.dll and some samples. After executing the "installer" you have to do a "regsvr32 capicom.dll" for registering the COM component. I will try the hints of Mike Dimmick on Monday and h

Re: [WiX-users] Register capicom.dll fails

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Hoyle Sent: 13 October 2006 14:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Register capicom.dll fails Mike Dimmick wrote: > Also, the CAPICOM team should have provided a better solution for > installation than

Re: [WiX-users] Register capicom.dll fails

2006-10-13 Thread Tony Hoyle
Mike Dimmick wrote: > Also, the CAPICOM team should have provided a better solution for > installation than SelfReg. Ideally they should provide a merge module. > Am I being too idealistic in suggesting that any Platform SDK > redistributable should have a merge module? > There's an official capic

Re: [WiX-users] Register capicom.dll fails

2006-10-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
You need to put a GUID in place of PUT-GUID-HERE in the element. Since there is no stable component GUID that you can use - that all other setup developers who use CAPICOM will be using - you should set the SharedDllRefCount attribute to "yes" on the . That ensures that it won't be prematurely rem