Hi, I was very relieved that there was a CheckAssemblyForCOMInterop functionality built into the MSITask, because I'm not very versed in COM interop issues. However, I think it's a bit too much to automatically do this and include the results in the MSI archive. And I need to be able to switch off the checks.
What I've done is to add an optional "checkinterop" attribute to the
MSIFileOverride element, and only do the interop check if a fileoverride
is specified and that attribute is set to true. This is a breaking
change, but alternatively you could make it so that the check is omitted
only if a fileoverride is specified and the checkinterop attribute set
to false.
Another thing is that after installing the resulting archive, the
registry entries added are not enough to be able to create ActiveX
objects from VBScript. As I said earlier, I'm not very well versed in
the intricacies of COM Interop, but from my experiments I conclude that
at least a Class string needs to be added to the
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{guid}\InprocServer32 key. I've added code to
add the entries to the MSI Registry table, but I would like some more
info/comments on the whole COM Interop thing before I submit a patch for
this.
Regards,
Kræn Munck
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