I can confirm that not only does nesting the progIDs not solve the issue, it
actually produces a build failure.
Firstly, it appears the wix documentation's claims that nesting of more than a
single ProgId under another progID creates COM aliases is incorrect (or perhaps
doesn't apply to advertise="no" nodes) because it tries to treat all of them
like version independent ProgId entries and fails to compile.
(Error message: "Version independent ProgIds cannot have Icons. Remove the Icon
and/or IconIndex attributes from your ProgId element")
Second, it says that ProgId elements can only be nested up to a single level
deep
(i.e. only
<ProgId Id="Prog1">
<ProgId Id="VerIndepProg" />
</ProgId>
And not
<ProgId Id="Prog1">
<ProgId Id="VerIndepProg" />
<ProgId Id="OtherProg2">
<ProgId Id="VerIndepOtherProg" />
</ProgId>
</ProgId>
)
(error message: "ProgId elements may not be nested more than 1 level deep.")
And unfortunately I need to do the latter because a number of the same-class
associated progIds also have versions and version-independent entries.
--
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Reich
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 7:41 PM
To: 'Bob Arnson'; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix bug when converting class/progID set from
advertised="yes" to advertised="no"?
I was looking into that very question, but I don't think it yields the same
affect.
For one thing, when you nest a progID thusly:
<ProgId Id="MyProgId.12">
<ProgId Id="MyProgId" />
</ProgId>
This indicates that MyProgId is the version independent ProgId for MyProgId.12.
The wix documentation for the ProgId Element:
...
Chidren
Sequence (min: 1, max:1)
1. ProgId (min: 0, max: unbounded): The version-independent ProgId must be
the first child elment of the actual ProgId. Nesting other ProgId elements
within the Version-independent ProgId will create COM+ aliases, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305745 for more information.
So the first point I should make is that I'm not sure that every ProgId in
question has a version-independent ProgId to associate with it, in which case
would mean I have nothing to nest as the first element. Second, the successive
ProgIds are COM+ aliases, and while the documentation on these is terrible as
far as I've been able to hunt down, it appears they don't serve quite the same
purpose as what I am alluding to above. COM+ aliases not only generate an
alternate ProgID, but also an alternate Class ID associated with that ProgId
that happens I believe to point to the same server object. That being said, not
being familiar with COM+ aliases well at all, I could be off base here, and I'm
not fully sure how this operates in the installer, so that might give me
something like what I would want, providing the first pesky scenario that not
every primary ProgId under all of the classes has a version-independent ProgId
associated with it comes into play.
--
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:00 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Cc: Bryan Reich
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix bug when converting class/progID set from
advertised="yes" to advertised="no"?
On 1/6/2010 7:42 PM, Bryan Reich wrote:
> What is happening is that WIX, while turning these ProgIds into their
> constituent registry keys, does NOT use the heuristic of "first progID under
> the Class element becomes the CLSID\{myGUID}\ProgID key value" that is used
> when advertise is yes.
I had my COM memories surgically removed years ago, so I'm not understanding
the details here but can you get the effect you're looking for by nesting your
ProgIds? What are the HKCR registry values you're expecting?
--
sig://boB
http://joyofsetup.com/
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