Welcome to my world. Back in 2001 I knew nothing about IIS or SQL or file shares or any of that stuff. Had to go learn all that to create the IIS, SQL, and FileShare (and other) custom actions. It is disappointing that the teams that create these new technologies don't also provide the necessary enhancements to the installation engine... but they never have.
However, over on wix-devs mailing, we know tons (tons!) about creating custom actions and can help through any complications you might have there. Of course, back in 2001 I didn't really know anything about custom actions and didn't have all the WiX helper libraries (yet) so that made creating the custom actions for IIS, SQL, and FileShare (and others) even more challenging. At least you can get a head start on that process. <smile/> -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Tomiczek [mailto:t.tomic...@nettecture.com] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 5:02 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Event Source Manifests and Wix .... is there a good example? You know, Rob, I may be inclinced to do that - if I would have at least the hint of a clue how that stuff works. The whole Manifest thing is something I totally fail to understand and find documentation. This - and the fact that I am not really into installers and the wix source - makes it kind of hard. I may be willing to spend a week maybe to provide some help here for a 3.9 release, but someone would have to get me into the whole "how is this supposed to actually work" side. Seriously, this post of mine is a good indication here - I have no idea what even is there at the moment. It may well be that things are just supposed to work when called correctly, but I fail to be able to even get a coherent example. For now, I am trying to work along the line of http://rrandomdiscovery.blogspot.com/2009/03/wix-eventmanifest.html - but my events do simply not show up ;( Regards Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: 30 January 2014 20:03 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Event Source Manifests and Wix .... is there a good example? If EventManifest can't do it, it'd be ideal to help improve it rather than one off your own custom action. <smile/> -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Tomiczek [mailto:t.tomic...@nettecture.com] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:44 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [WiX-users] Event Source Manifests and Wix .... is there a good example? Now that the .NET team finally has released a usable version of the event source at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource with v 1.0.16 - one that also supports the admin channel - the task is on me to get it into some of our programs. I am stuck in the installation of the manifests in a proper way (without going to a custom action, what I actually prefer to avoid). According to the sample that uses the event log, they call Wevtutil As: wevtutil im C:\ProgramData\EventSourceSamples\EventSourceTest.Samples-EventSou rceDemos-EventLog.etwManifest.man /rf:"C:\ProgramData\EventSourceSamples\EventSo urceTest.Samples-EventSourceDemos-EventLog.etwManifest.dll" /mf:"C:\ProgramData\ EventSourceSamples\EventSourceTest.Samples-EventSourceDemos-EventLog.etwManifest .dll" And I wonder how to replicate that in WIX. It is clear I need to install the 2 files (the .man and the .dll that are the event source). But how do I formulate that best with the registration? Can util:EventManifest be used here or.... do I Really need to do a custom action for that (and can someone help me make one)? Regards Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WatchGuard Dimension instantly turns raw network data into actionable security intelligence. It gives you real-time visual feedback on key security issues and trends. 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