Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Natalie Carr
Opps, silly me. Thanks for all your help Neil, greatly appreciated. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: 19 October 2012 11:21 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly Why

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
You also have the option of using registry free COM, if the dlls are suited to it. -Original Message- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: 19 October 2012 10:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly Hi I ha

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Neil Sleightholm
heir system >folder, would you have any idea how I would achieve this? > >-Original Message- >From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] >Sent: 19 October 2012 10:51 >To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registering D

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Natalie Carr
t: 19 October 2012 10:51 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly I use heat as a starting point and then clean up the output. SelfRegCost works ok but it calls DllRegisterServer/DllUnRegisterServer which means it can be uncontrol

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Neil Sleightholm
2012 10:39 >To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly > >The "proper" way is to harvest the registry entries. The other way is to >set >File/@SelfRegCost="1". > >Neil > > >>

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Natalie Carr
toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly The "proper" way is to harvest the registry entries. The other way is to set File/@SelfRegCost="1". Neil >Hi I have to register a lot of DLL and I currently have a custom action >to do this, however

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Neil Sleightholm
The "proper" way is to harvest the registry entries. The other way is to set File/@SelfRegCost="1". Neil >Hi I have to register a lot of DLL and I currently have a custom action to >do this, however I would like to know the proper MSI way of doing this? >Can >anyone guide me in the right directi

[WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Natalie Carr
Hi I have to register a lot of DLL and I currently have a custom action to do this, however I would like to know the proper MSI way of doing this? Can anyone guide me in the right direction please? And also how to unregister them on uninstall. Kind Regards, Natalie Carr ---