Mike Dimmick wrote: > You can use the Class table to take away some of the pain of creating > the registry entries, although Rob Mensching has some reservations with > this apparently. I'm not quite sure why. The SDK currently calls out the > Typelib table as having problems with rollback. Using the Class table > creates an _advertised_ class, which I believe will potentially run > repair when instantiated if the component's dependencies are the wrong > versions (it also allows an administrator to advertise the package; when > the class is instantiated it will be installed if only advertised, not > yet installed - install-on-first-use). > It's important to note that you can use the WiX strongly-typed elements (e.g., Class, ProgId) to create both COM advertisements and plain ol' Registry table entries.
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