Re: [WiX-users] non-Profile specific class registration

tty sure I figured out the mystery. Nicholas -Original Message----- From: Nicholas Makin [mailto:nma...@opentext.com] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:49 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] non-Profile specific class registration My customer came to me a said that the softwar

[WiX-users] non-Profile specific class registration

My customer came to me a said that the software installs for only the current user. I didn't think there was anything user specific about the install and pointed them to look at other integration points. But after using Process Monitor to log registry activity I am not so sure! Nowhere in my wx

Re: [WiX-users] .net COM registration with heat

t.exe on the dll, adding in the "Assembly='.net'" into the element, and using heat.exe on the TLB file (generated via regasm /tlb) seems to work. -Original Message- From: Nicholas Makin [mailto:nma...@opentext.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2

[WiX-users] .net COM registration with heat

Hello, I am trying to build an installer for a .Net COM dll - and the things seem to work until the developer tries to use the COM object. If the developer runs regasm and gacutil on the dll then she is then able to use the COM object. I was under the impression that my MSI installer should hav

[WiX-users] Allowing the user to override the install directory

Please excuse my frustration but I am finding WiX to be neigh worthless - why? Because there is a plethora of information by half of it is no good and the other half points you to the mysterious MSI documentation which is wonderful if one could figure out how that translates to WiX. All I want

[WiX-users] Backup an existing file

I have been unable to find information on a simple thing maybe someone can point me in the right direction: If a given file exits (something.dll) I would like to create a backup of the current version of the file (something.uniqueInstallID.bak) and if the install is rolled back or upon uninstal

Re: [WiX-users] Adding a custom Dialog (Next button not working)

I figured out another way. I think I was just misunderstanding the tutorial. I thought I could override the Publish actions. Anyway I took the example on the wiki (http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=WixUI_Custom) and plugged in my dialog and everything it working wonderfully. --

[WiX-users] Adding a custom Dialog (Next button not working)

Hello, I have been trying to add a custom dialog to my setup process and nothing seems to be working. For a little while I could get to my dialog though a back button but in my tinkering trying to get this to work I guess I lost that too. Here is my current attempt: