Just a guess, but in seeing that the registry entry is in the Installer area, I am wondering if in the IS install if these private assembly files are marked as the KeyPath, which is why they are being recorded here?
As far as the crashing is concerned, have you confirmed if your private assembly files were actually installed? If they are missing and you manually copy them to where they need to be, does your installation now work? Andreas -----Original Message----- From: JKLists [mailto:jkli...@ifm-services.com] Sent: November-16-09 3:20 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Private Assemblies? I'm porting a .NET product from and older InstallShield to WiX. My ignorance of details of MSI and .NET's interactions with the registry are showing through here. I used heat to do the heavy lifting, and all files are in the correct place after install. However, I can't get the WiX-installed application to do anything but crash out of the gate. In diff'ing the registry exports of the two installs, I see entries like the following in the old IS install, but not the WiX install. (Names change to protect the guilty. *grin*) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Assemblies\C:|Program Files|ACME|FooProject|Foo.Runtime.dll] "Foo.Runtime,Version=\"3.1.0.38471\",Culture=\"neutral\",ProcessorArchitectu re=\"MSIL\",PublicKeyToken=\"1234567890123456\""=hex(7):28,\ 00,75,00,33,00,5d,00,67,00,5b,00,70,00,48,00,38,00,3d,00,5b,00,4c,00,57,00,\ 00,00,6d,00,43,00,6c,00,3d,00,5a,00,72,00,3e,00,4a,00,66,00,6e,00,69,00,4d,\ 00,77,00,69,00,37,00,46,00,4e,00,52,00,21,00,47,00,40,00,21,00,44,00,7b,00,\ 00,00,45,00,40,00,00,00,00,00 Googling suggests that perhaps the WiX version is not creating private assembly entries in the registry, but I'm not seeing how to do this. Adding Assembly=".net" to the <File> tag is for strong name assemblies, which these are not. Or, if I'm barking up an obviously wrong tree, I'm open to correction too. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
