Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-10-04 Thread Troy Howard
plication is a beast, and the installer has to tame it. What a project At least I have a nice view of downtown Portland at night from the 11th floor of this building. Thanks, Troy On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-10-04 Thread Troy Howard
I appreciate the feedback. In the short term, I've added the SelfRegCost attribute to the file tags for the non-.Net COM DLLs, and that seems to work fine. As for the DLLs themselves, I have no idea what langauge they were written in. We're using them within a legacy VB6 app, and wiring in new fun

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-10-02 Thread Troy Howard
Regarding SelfReg, or not I'm not completely sure I drink the Kool-Aid on this one. So, I understand that SelfRegCost violates transactability rules (spell checker says transactability is not a word >shrug<) due to MSI and how it handles that... But what then IS the recommended way to deal wit

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-09-30 Thread Troy Howard
ntown Portland at night from > the 11th floor of this building. > > Thanks, > Troy > > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>"Troy Howard" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-09-30 Thread Troy Howard
. I've tried everything I can think of, and everything I've heard suggested on the 'net.. Is it always this complicated to register .Net COM DLLs? Did I miss the easy route somehow? Thanks, Troy On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Troy Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I

[WiX-users] Anyone have XSL for fixing up nested registry values?

2008-09-29 Thread Troy Howard
I read a message on here a while back where someone had written an XSL to fixup the "primary key is duplicated" errors caused by nested registry value elements like this example: The XSL would convert these to single line

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness

2008-09-29 Thread Troy Howard
Hi Jim, Did you ever figure this out? I'm in basically the same situation. I have a VB6 application that uss numerous third party COM DLLs, and some in-house .Net COM DLLs. I've included all the appropriate bits of WiX code (AFAICT), but the registration doesn't seem to be effective. Running regs

Re: [WiX-users] Creating using Heat.

2008-09-12 Thread Troy Howard
Well, if you're looking for a simple programming task that will solve your problem, how about just writing a small command-line app in vb.net that fixes up the XML that heat generates? That would probably be much more simple than trying to extend heat.. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM, BOB1981 <

Re: [WiX-users] Re mote SQL Authentication

2008-09-09 Thread Troy Howard
because I think the order > is what's been messing me up). > > 1. Connect to Server B (sql server) using sysadmin (sa user) from Server B. > 2. Create new database on Server B using user sysadmin from above. > 3. Grant login rights and dbo role on new databases to the origin

Re: [WiX-users] Re mote SQL Authentication

2008-09-09 Thread Troy Howard
Seems like the workflow is: 1. Connect to Server B (sql server) using an existing sql login (not windows), that has less than admin level rights (configured where? created when?). 2. Somehow obtain different credentials from Server B that have administrative rights on Server B. 3. Connect with new

Re: [WiX-users] custom ui sample question

2008-09-06 Thread Troy Howard
Well, the value is a pre-processor variable. It doesn't exist outside of VS (or a commandline MSBuild environment). So, when you build it in Wixedit, it doesn't have that variable set. Specifically, this variable is referring to the filename of a dll/exe/msm/etc from a visual studio project called

Re: [WiX-users] WixUI Banner image sizes

2008-09-05 Thread Troy Howard
b Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Troy Howard wrote: > > Also, since I imagine this will annoy a lot of people, is there any > reason > > why it's different in the first place? > > When I created WixUI, I started with the MSI SDK samples, not with the > .vdpr

[WiX-users] WixUI Banner image sizes

2008-09-03 Thread Troy Howard
First, thanks all for helping put me on the right track with merge modules in my last message. I figured that out and it's exactly what I needed. My current question revolves around the stock ui in WixUIExtensions.dll and the image sizes. Our company currently has a number of installers that were

[WiX-users] Merge existing MSIs into a single MSI as features

2008-09-01 Thread Troy Howard
All, First -- I'm new to the list, so, nice to meet you. My question, in a nutshell, is what is the best way to go about dealing with this situation I have? The situation its, that I've got a bunch of tools which are related to each other as part of a software platform. They are all various utili