Bob has added support to WiX 3 for custom event sources, but I don't think the custom log is in there yet. It is on the list.
Luckily, both event logs and sources are simply a bunch of registry keys. This is bread and butter for WiX/MSI, so it is not difficult to implement this natively with no CAs at all. The trick is to get the authoring for the keys. You can easily go into the registry, export those nodes and use heat or tallow to convert the .reg files to WiX authoring though. The biggest trick in my mind is what to do about the event message DLL file. If you are using .NET and its eventlog support, you are almost certainly using the event message DLLs that come with .NET. In my mind, the main problem is picking the appropriate DLL from various possible .NET Framework installs that might be on the box. All of the event message DLLs will work and do the same thing though, so I don't think you really need to pick a specific one. I think you can use any. The file always has the same name, so you just need to get the right path. An alternate approach would be to put their DLL in your own installer so it is self-contained and reference it from your own install dir. That bloats your installer a bit and is a little evil, but should work. You can also write your own message dll. The MSDN reference talks a little about how. :) I think the first thing to do is look at the registry keys created for your custom log so you can start to understand how it works. MSDN also documents all the registry keys. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Stokes To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:05 PM Subject: [WiX-users] Create Event Log Hi, Is there a way to create an event log without resorting to installer files and Custom Actions. Cheers Stokesy Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
