I'm
not totally sure about that. The
documentation states that it is for registering Interop assemblies, and I have
a feeling in the back of my mind that when I looked at it, it didn't do the
same as registering a COM DLL, but you can give it a try and
see.
Cheers,
Bill
-----Original
Message-----
From: Whitner,
Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 01 March 2005 15:04
To: Bill Martin
Subject: RE: [Nant-users] How do you
register dlls (COM) with <msm> or >msi> tasks?
I have
noticed that the <forceid> element also has a checkinterop attribute
which states that it will "register" the file. Does this have the same
effect?
-
Tom
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:56
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To: Whitner, Tom;
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Subject: RE: [Nant-users] How do you
register dlls (COM) with <msm> or >msi> tasks?
Hi
Tom,
I
think you will need to define a custom table. There are two ways of registering COM
components within an MSI database, one it to use the SelfReg table, which
basically calls regsvr32 to self-register the component, the other is to
manually create the entries your self (i.e. CLSID, Typelib etc). Although Microsoft recommend against
using the SelfReg table (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">),
it is by far the easiest way, and I'm not sure how easy it is to get all the
data you need to create the entries yourself from a VB COM Component.
I
haven't tried this, but I think you need something
like:
<tables>
<table
name="SelfReg">
<columns>
<column
name="File_" nullable="false" category="Identifier" key="true"
/>
<column
name="Cost" nullable="true" category="Integer" key="false"
/>
</columns>
<rows>
<row>
<columns>
<column name="File_" value="*This needs to be the value from the
first column in the File table*" />
</columns>
</row>
</rows>
</table>
</tables>
You
will need to use the <forceid> tag in your component definition to set
the ID for the file to be registered as you need this in the File column above
(Otherwise <msi> will generate a random ID for the
file)
HTH,
Bill
-----Original
Message-----
From: Whitner,
Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 February 2005 21:11
To:
[email protected]
Subject: [Nant-users] How do you register
dlls (COM) with <msm> or >msi> tasks?
Thanks,
Tom
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