Re: [WiX-users] Installing shared assemblies

2006-10-27 Thread Wilson, Phil
#x27;t find it in the archives..) Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Finger Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 3:24 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing shared assemblies On Fri, 27 Oct

Re: [WiX-users] Installing shared assemblies

2006-10-27 Thread Geoff Finger
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Phil Wilson wrote: > If you have a .NET assembly exposing COM interfaces you don't need an > interop Dll, but you need it registering in the same general way that > Regasm does (there's Tallow). Gacutil just puts it in the GAC. What you > get for a registered .NET assembly are

Re: [WiX-users] Installing shared assemblies

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Dimmick
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing shared assemblies   I'm pretty sure you get a bunch of ICE 33 warnings with the typelib registry entries over the TypeLib table. I can vouch that the Registry Table route works. It is, I believe, the generally (arguably?) preferred w

Re: [WiX-users] Installing shared assemblies

2006-10-27 Thread Bob Arnson
Wilson, Phil wrote: > I'm not sure whether Wix prefers type library registration with the > Registry table or with the TypeLib table. > WiX turns TypeLib (et al) authoring into Registry rows unless Advertise is explicitly set to Yes. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org --

Re: [WiX-users] Installing shared assemblies

2006-10-27 Thread John Watson
I'm pretty sure you get a bunch of ICE 33 warnings with the typelib registry entries over the TypeLib table. I can vouch that the Registry Table route works. It is, I believe, the generally (arguably?) preferred way so msiexec can track the registry entries and uninstall them. But I needn't tell yo

Re: [WiX-users] Installing shared assemblies

2006-10-27 Thread Wilson, Phil
If you have a .NET assembly exposing COM interfaces you don't need an interop Dll, but you need it registering in the same general way that Regasm does (there's Tallow). Gacutil just puts it in the GAC. What you get for a registered .NET assembly are CLSID/{Guid} entries that show mscoree.dll as th