Bad idea. Best practice is to run regasm /regfile:myasm.reg myasm.dll and
turn the resulting registry file into RegistryKey and RegistryValue
elements.
I believe tallow (v2) and heat (v3) can detect an assembly to be registered
for COM and generate Registry (tallow) or strongly-typed COM elements
(heat). For tallow use the -c switch, or -reg on the registry file, while
for heat it's the default when using 'heat file', I think.
--
Mike Dimmick
_____
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abdullah Ahmed
Sent: 31 March 2008 19:39
To: WiX Users
Subject: [WiX-users] Regasm custom action Fails intermittently in Windows
XP64bit.
Hey Guys,
For an install we have a custom action in our wixscript performing Regasm in
windows xp x64 environment. The install periodically fails at that point.
Sometimes it works..sometimes it doesnt. When I try to run regasm manually
using the command prompt on the same dll it always works.
Here is my custom action....
<CustomAction Id="CallRegASM" Directory="INSTALLDIR" Win64="no"
ExeCommand=""[WindowsFolder]Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm.e
xe" /codebase
"[ContentFilter]PNContentFilters.NetKPIDrawFilter.dll""
Return="check" />
It is being called in the <InstallExecuteSequence> like this.
<Custom Action="CallRegASM" After="InstallFinalize">NOT Installed</Custom>
The installer logs have the following in them...
Action start 10:36:08: CallRegASM.
MSI (s) (80:68) [10:36:13:109]: Note: 1: 1722 2: CallRegASM 3: C:\Program
Files (x86)\Matrikon\ProcessSuite\ProcessNet\ 4:
"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm.exe" /codebase
"C:\Program Files
(x86)\Matrikon\ProcessSuite\ProcessNet\Web\NetKPI\ContentFilter\PNContentFil
ters.NetKPIDrawFilter.dll"
MSI (c) (C8:9C) [10:36:13:125]: Font created. Charset: Req=0, Ret=0, Font:
Req=MS Shell Dlg, Ret=MS Shell Dlg
Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A
program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your
support personnel or package vendor. Action CallRegASM, location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Matrikon\ProcessSuite\ProcessNet\, command:
"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm.exe" /codebase
"C:\Program Files
(x86)\Matrikon\ProcessSuite\ProcessNet\Web\NetKPI\ContentFilter\PNContentFil
ters.NetKPIDrawFilter.dll"
MSI (s) (80:68) [10:36:15:750]: Product: Matrikon NetKPI -- Error 1722.
There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as
part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel
or package vendor. Action CallRegASM, location: C:\Program Files
(x86)\Matrikon\ProcessSuite\ProcessNet\, command:
"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm.exe" /codebase
"C:\Program Files
(x86)\Matrikon\ProcessSuite\ProcessNet\Web\NetKPI\ContentFilter\PNContentFil
ters.NetKPIDrawFilter.dll"
Action ended 10:36:15: CallRegASM. Return value 3.
Action ended 10:36:15: INSTALL. Return value 3.
As noted this does not happen all the time.
Any ideas why this may be happening?
--
. Abdullah Ahmed
. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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