Re: [WiX-users] WIX and private assemblies for Windows 2000

2007-12-23 Thread Andrew Sampson
Either a transform specifically for Win2k installs, or perhaps a Qualified Component. I've never had reason to use either, but it sounds like this situation would fit. Links for Qualified Components: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370947(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us

Re: [WiX-users] Dependent Windows Services

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Sampson
Ran into this problem myself, and ended up writing a whole chunk of code in a custom action to walk the list of dependencies amongst the services and restart them in the correct order. Unfortunately, there are some very weird dependencies amongst services out there and you can never know them all s

Re: [WiX-users] outlook com addin

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Sampson
I've had a similar problem - our Wise MSIs were previously using regasm/regsvr32 custom actions to register DLLs. In the switch to WiX though, I've written a CompilerExtension to get the registration info on compile and output it into the registry table of the generated MSI. It's fairly rough still