Either I don't understand what you're saying, or you're not understanding what I'm wanting to do.. Thus, let me try to be more clear....
Here is an example component wix file that we are wanting to implement: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns:inin="http://www.inin.com/i3WixExtensions"; xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLDIR"> <Component Id="eicauthps.d" Guid="6BEB27AC-14BC-46E1-AF1C-2CE104724EC8" SharedDllRefCount="yes"> <File Name="EICAuthPS.dll" inin:FileRegister="yes" ReadOnly="no" KeyPath="yes" Source="../../../../../eic/bin/EICAuthPS.dll" Id="EICAuthPS.dll" DiskId="1" /> </Component> </DirectoryRef> </Fragment> </Wix> Notice the inin:FileRegister="yes" custom attribute in the File element. What our extension would do at candle time, is call heat and create a tmp.wxs file that would result in something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR"> <Directory Id="bin" Name="bin" /> </DirectoryRef> </Fragment> <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="bin"> <Component Id="EICAuthPS.dll" Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE"> <File Id="EICAuthPS.dll" Name="EICAuthPS.dll" KeyPath="yes" Source="r:\products\eic\bin\EICAuthPS.dll"> <Class Id="{38D77500-4C1B-11D2-BF8A-00A0C90DC629}" Context="InprocServer32" Description="PSFactoryBuffer" ThreadingModel="both" /> </File> <Interface Id="{38D77500-4C1B-11D2-BF8A-00A0C90DC629}" Name="IEICAuthCallback" ProxyStubClassId32="{38D77500-4C1B-11D2-BF8A-00A0C90DC629}" NumMethods="5" /> <Interface Id="{9DD67050-4CE1-11D2-BF8A-00A0C90DC629}" Name="IEICAuthBD" ProxyStubClassId32="{38D77500-4C1B-11D2-BF8A-00A0C90DC629}" NumMethods="4" /> <Interface Id="{C06D0D93-4C16-11D2-BF8A-00A0C90DC629}" Name="IEICAuthMgt" ProxyStubClassId32="{38D77500-4C1B-11D2-BF8A-00A0C90DC629}" NumMethods="4" /> <Interface Id="{F2C5A38E-32D9-11D2-BF81-00A0C90DC629}" Name="IEICAuthServer" ProxyStubClassId32="{38D77500-4C1B-11D2-BF8A-00A0C90DC629}" NumMethods="4" /> </Component> </DirectoryRef> </Fragment> </Wix> then our extension would read in the wxs file as an XmlDocument, and parse it looking for any file registration related element (Class, Interface, ProgID, etc.) and use the attributes in it to create rows in the database (wixobj file) as if those elements actually existed in the original wxs file to begin with. This way, if registration changes for a dll we don't have to be privy to that knowledge. At build time, WiX will pick up the changes when building the new wixobj file. So our thought was that others could probably use this same functionality.. Thus our question to the wix-devs is, is this something that sounds reasonable to add to WiX (candle)? Bob Arnson-3 wrote: > > BradW wrote: >> So as a test we are manually using heat.exe to get registration >> information >> and inserting the data into our wix component files. This was working >> well >> so today I began extending wix with a custom File attribute that would do >> the following: >> > Are you using an extension? Extensions support custom elements right in > the WiX code so you wouldn't need to parse anything other than the > custom elements. > > > -- > sig://boB > http://bobs.org > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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-devs mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/auto-generation-of-file-registration-data-%28heat-%29-tf2271958.html#a6327268 Sent from the wix-devs forum at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
