Opps, silly me. Thanks for all your help Neil, greatly appreciated. -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 19 October 2012 11:21 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly
Why would you do that, if they are already installed then they should be registered, if not you should be installing and registering them. Neil >Thanks, I think I will just use the SelfRegCost for now. I am trying to >register DLL's that would be found on the target machine in their >system folder, would you have any idea how I would achieve this? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: 19 October 2012 10:51 >To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly > >I use heat as a starting point and then clean up the output. > >SelfRegCost works ok but it calls DllRegisterServer/DllUnRegisterServer >which means it can be uncontrolled as you don't know what is happening >in those functions, as a replacement for your CA it should be >identical. It should work on 64 bit machines. > >Neil > > >>Is that using heat? Do you know what problems would occur if any using >>the second method? And how these would work on 64 bit machines? Thanks >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: 19 October 2012 10:39 >>To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >>Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly >> >>The "proper" way is to harvest the registry entries. The other way is >>to set File/@SelfRegCost="1". >> >>Neil >> >> >>>Hi I have to register a lot of DLL and I currently have a custom >>>action to do this, however I would like to know the proper MSI way of >>>doing this? >>>Can >>>anyone guide me in the right direction please? And also how to >>>unregister them on uninstall. >>> >>>Kind Regards, >>> >>>Natalie Carr >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>- >>>- >>>--- >>>---- >>>Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >>>Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite >>>for free today: >>>http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct >>>_______________________________________________ >>>WiX-users mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- >>--- >>-- >>-- >>Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >>Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite >>for free today: >>http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct >>_______________________________________________ >>WiX-users mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>- >>--- >>---- >>Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >>Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite >>for free today: >>http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct >>_______________________________________________ >>WiX-users mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- >-- >-- >Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite >for free today: >http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct >_______________________________________________ >WiX-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- >---- >Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite >for free today: >http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct >_______________________________________________ >WiX-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
