The WiX3.msi registers with VS. I'm not an expert in that stuff but how is yours different than what the WiX toolset does?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John-Daniel Trask Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 18:26 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] UAC + devenv setup Hi, We have built a Visual Studio package that we are integrating using WIX. I've run into issues however as we need to run as an administrator. I applied the required changes to make this work (elevated install privilages, the custom action that calls devenv /setup was set to before finalize, the action is deferred and not impersonated). However while this action completes it doesn't integrate properly and I get COM errors with anything relating to menu entries and my package in Visual Studio despite no errors during the install process. When I actually run the MSI using the awkward run-as-admin method of calling msiexec directly, it works. Something we can't really ask our customers to do. I explored the WIX output that Visual Studio automatically generates for Visual Studio packages it has the comment that devenv /setup needs to be called after finalize as if anything is getting GAC'd it won't be available until that point. However, my understanding is that the elevated privileges don't get carried over if done after finalize which is the problem we're seeing here. If my action gets called before finalize it fails (so it would seem that the comment in the generated wix document is correct). Is there any way of extending the elevated privileges after finalize? The closest thing I can find about this issue is here: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg12030.html Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated as this problem is reaching that painful point of frustration! :-) John-Daniel Trask Director MINDSCAPE Phone: +64 21 434 957 Web: mindscape.co.nz Blog: <http://blog.bluecog.co.nz> blog.bluecog.co.nz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
