regasm /regfile doesn't always work because if you have any user defined
register functions they will not be in the regfile. From what I've seen of
heat, it's not vunerable to this extraction problem. InstallShield does have
this problem.
Personally I wrote a little UI over heat that watches a directory for changes
and spits out a wix fragment. I just scrape up the harvested XML and paste it
into my installer source.
----- Original Message ----
From: "gree...@cox.net" <gree...@cox.net>
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Elfe Xu <elf...@microsoft.com>
Sent: Sat, June 12, 2010 2:48:58 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Question about register .net COM object
I saw regasm in the CustomAction element, so I am assuming that this is a .NET
assembly exposing COM objects. Use the /reg option to create a .reg file
containing all of the registry settings. Then you can manually enter these
values into the Wix projects.
Wix has some tools that can automate some of this, but check the results and
make sure what you have is correct. What you may need to do is run a CA to set
the Codebase value in the registry for the installed COM .NET assembly.. The
value regasm puts in the .REG file will not be value for the install.
Regards,
greenaj
---- Elfe Xu <elf...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying a CA
> <CustomAction Id="RegT" ExeCommand="blablabla\RegAsm.exe T.dll"
> Execute="immediate" />
> and found it can only success if I make the CA run after InstallFinalized.
> Otherwise, it will fail.
>
> I think the right way is to use Class element, but I just cannot make the
> result the same as I execute regasm.exe.
> Here is my trying:
> <Component Id ="TestComponent"
>Guid="D75C79A1-83C9-467D-89FB-4B7E081401CE" Win64="$(var.USEWIN64)" >
> <File Id="TestCOM" Assembly=".net" Name="Test.dll" DiskId="1"
>Source="..\..\TestCOM.dll" KeyPath="yes">
> <Class Id="CE13T9EC-3BE1-4292-89C4-243ERF42967B"
> Description="test com"
> ThreadingModel="both"
> Context="InprocServer32"
> <ProgId Id="MyTestCOM" />
> </Class>
> </File>
> </Component>
> I just cannot find way to set lots of other stuffs, like
> Implemented Categories with value {62C8FE65-4EBB-45e7-B440-6E39B2CDBF29}
> The Assembly, Class, RuntimeVersion under InprocServer32.
> I want to set the ForeignServer with mscoree.dll, but wix says it cannot be
> used under <File>.
>
> I guess I might doing totally wrong. Anyone can give me a sample of how to do
> the register?
>
> Another question is: when I want to add the .net assembly into wix project
> reference, why I get the error of "Test.dll could not be added. Please make
> sure that the file is accessible, and that it is a valid WiX reference."
> Because of this failure, I can only add the file by the relevant path. Not
> sure if it is a cause of the register failure.
>
> Thanks,
> -Elfe
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