Laughing. ;-)
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Don Caton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You mean there's actually a Html Help team? Wonder what they've been
> doing for the past 10 or 11 years?
>
>
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Rob Mensching
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:35 PM
> *To:* Don Caton; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Integrating documentation with Visual Studio
> 2008
>
>
>
> Yeah, we've sent this type of feedback to the Html Help team before.
> Unfortunately, we (people who work on WiX) don't have control over the
> quality of the merge module.
>
>
>
> I'll send this one along again (just in case anyone over there thought
> things were "good enough").
>
>
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Don Caton
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 08, 2008 15:05
> *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Integrating documentation with Visual Studio
> 2008
>
>
>
> Doug:
>
>
>
> I wasted days and days on this but was never able to get any of that to
> work, even in VS2005. The Wix docs for the tags in question are not
> helpful, and I couldn't find any examples on the web. Just questions, and a
> reference to a wix bug that may or may not be fixed (the sourceforge page
> for that bug id returns a blank page).
>
>
>
> If you want to save yourself a ton of grief, check out Helpware's H2Reg
> utility (www.helpware.net). I include this little exe in our installer
> and launch it from a custom action after I run devenv/setup. It works
> great. I think it's free for individual use, but the site license was
> inexpensive, and far less than the time I wasted trying to get it to work in
> Wix.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Don
>
>
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Doug Payne
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:20 PM
> *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [WiX-users] Integrating documentation with Visual Studio 2008
>
>
>
> I am trying to integrate documentation for my product into the VS 2008
> documentation, using HTML_Help_Registration__RTL_---_---.msm and
> VSIPCC_Collection_Files_RTL_---_---.msm included in the VS 2008 SDK. Has
> anyone successfully accomplished this? What changes did you make to the html
> help merge module to get it to work?
>
>
>
> I encounter an "unexpected error" while merging. The merge log includes the
> following:
>
> Merging Sequence Table: ModuleInstallExecuteSequence into Database Table:
> InstallExecuteSequence
>
> Base Action ProcessComponents in InstallExecuteSequence table already
> exists in MSI. Using MSI action.
>
> Base Action InstallFinalize in InstallExecuteSequence table already exists
> in MSI. Using MSI action.
>
> Placing action
> CA_UnRegisterMicrosoftHelp.3643236F_FC70_11D3_A536_0090278A1BB8 before
> StopServices
>
> …
>
> > Warning: Changes were not saved to MSI Database.
>
> Closed MSI Database.
>
>
>
> I see a few other "merging row lines" but nothing which indicates an error.
> I can't remove ProcessComponents and InstallFinalize from the
> ModuleInstallExecuteSequence table because several entries refer to these as
> their BaseAction, and BaseActions must also have their own entries in this
> table. How have others worked around this?
>
>
>
> --Doug
>
>
>
>
>
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