Thanks Craig, I am including the list on this reply so that they have a record of this behavior...
Jim -----Original Message----- From: Craig Neuwirt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:38 PM To: James Geurts Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NAnt conflict with NAntContrib MSI Task Hello James, I identified the problem described in the previous mail. Just so you know, the latest version of NAnt can possibly cause existing NAnt builds that use NAntContrib to fail. In my situation I had a target that loaded the NAntContrib using the following <loadtasks path="${contrib.dir}\nantcontrib\bin"/> Prior to the recent changes in NAnt, this would have loaded the tasks from all dll that ended with .Tasks. However, the new build does not filter the dll so all of them are loaded. One such dll is Interop.WindowsInstaller.dll. Unforunately, it contains an interface names "WindowsInstaller.Installer". When the msi task is executing and it gets to the InstallerDatabase constructor public InstallerDatabase(string path) { _archivePath = path; _installer = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("WindowsInstaller.Installer"); _installerInstance = Activator.CreateInstance(_installer); } the Type.GetTypeFromProgID("WindowsInstaller.Installer") actually returns the type representing WindowsInstaller.Installer in the Interop.WindowsInstaller.dll (This seems to be a .Net phenomena). As a result the Activator complains about creating an instance of an interface. I wrote a sample program to confirm this behavior. My temp solution is to limit the loadtasks to jus the *Tasks.dll <loadtasks> <fileset basedir="${contrib.dir}\nantcontrib\bin"> <includes name="**Tasks*.dll"/> </fileset> </loadtasks> craig -----Original Message----- From: James Geurts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 3/10/2004 8:41 AM To: Craig Neuwirt Cc: Subject: RE: MSI Task creating Virtual Directory Well, if there is anything that you get stuck on, let me know. I figure that if one person gets hung up on it, more probably will, so I try to add to the wiki as people need help. Thanks Jim -----Original Message----- From: Craig Neuwirt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:12 AM To: James Geurts Subject: RE: MSI Task creating Virtual Directory Thanks so much James. The msi creation is the last part of my build process which is fully nant, nunit, and CruiseControl.Net driven. I am not an expert on the Windows Installer so I have really struggled on how to use the MSI task properly to create a web project with custom user interfaces and actions. Craig -----Original Message----- From: James Geurts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/9/2004 7:25 PM To: 'Gert Driesen'; 'Craig Neuwirt'; 'Joseph Kunjoonju' Cc: Subject: RE: MSI Task creating Virtual Directory Thanks for forwarding this Gert! The sample build script from the Wiki is probably a little too old. I will update it to work with the latest code in cvs, once I get my computer back to a working state (just re-formatted). I have included the dll and updated the url in the wiki to point to a valid file. It happens to be the same dll that Microsoft uses with their web installs. If you have any other questions, feel free to email me directly, or indirectly via the nantcontrib-developer list (I tend to monitor that one the most). Jim -----Original Message----- From: Gert Driesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:56 PM To: Craig Neuwirt Cc: James Geurts Subject: Re: MSI Task creating Virtual Directory What sample build are you referring to ? I copied James Geurts in on this conversation as he's the original author of the msi/msm tasks (if I'm not mistaken), and a msi wizard :-) Gert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Neuwirt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:40 PM Subject: MSI Task creating Virtual Directory > Sorry to bother you. I am using the NantContrib MSITask to > > build an msi using NAnt. The sample build references a > > MSVBDPCA.DLL to be able to create virtual directories. > > However, I have made an exhaustive search for this dll with > > no success. I was wondering if you know how to obtain this > > dll. > > > > Thanks, > > Craig Neuwirt > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ NAntContrib-Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nantcontrib-developer
