Re: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC

2014-04-07 Thread Carter Young
are references back to the >> install. >> >> Neil >> >> -Original Message----- >> From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] >> Sent: 03 April 2014 16:59 >> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC

2014-04-07 Thread Phil Wilson
ril 2014 16:59 > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC > > In these situations you hope that the 3rd party has some docs explaining how > to share correctly (giving you component ids maybe) or a redistributabl

Re: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC

2014-04-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
ed as there are references back to the install. Neil -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 April 2014 16:59 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC In these situations you hope tha

Re: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC

2014-04-03 Thread Rob Mensching
convi...@orbussoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 8:11 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC Hello, Quick question regarding adding third party libraries to the GAC. Naturally if our app is used we don't want the 3rd

Re: [WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC

2014-04-03 Thread Phil Wilson
In these situations you hope that the 3rd party has some docs explaining how to share correctly (giving you component ids maybe) or a redistributable exe or a merge module. The short answer is that neither WiX nor Windows Installer will manage the ref counts correctly unless they are shared correct

[WiX-users] Adding 3rd party assemblies to the GAC

2014-04-03 Thread James McConville
Hello, Quick question regarding adding third party libraries to the GAC. Naturally if our app is used we don't want the 3rd party dlls to be uninstalled unless they are not being used. So my question is, does wix increment and decrement the reference counts when installing and uninstalling?