Rob Mensching wrote: > > 3. I agree, if the CustomAction calls SelfReg on the DLL that sounds bad. > Unfortunately, I know of no teams inside Microsoft using the COM+ > CustomActions. The only person I know that knows anything about COM+ is > fregro. > > My apologies for not stating things more clearly, COM+ has the ability to > Export an MSI. In doing this it creates an MSI that can be used to > install the COM+ Package on another machine. When I examine the MSI it is > NOT using any COM+ CustomActions, yet it still creates the Application > sucessfully. My question was, is there any chance we can talk to that > team, or ask Fregro to look at those MSIs so that we can NOT use > self-register and instead use the same method that COM+ itself uses. > > I have found almost NO documentation on the MSIs created by COM+, but I > can tell you from using ORCA that they are very different than those > created by WiX or even the .NET IDE installer project when it comes to > registering COM, and sepcifically COM+ packages. Someone in MS must know > this, since they created the COM+ Export feature in the first place. > > Unfortunately, I have to have automated installs yesterday, and I don't > actually need an MSI, so I do not have time to go digging throught the > COM+ version and experimenting. > > Thanks, > Joshua > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jdrake > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 12:21 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registry Issue > > > 3. That's is odd to me, the custom action part, because the COM+ Exported > Installers use a whole different set of tables to do their installations. > Also this cutom action does a Self Register, which is a big no-no from > everything that I have read, both on the WiX side, and the MS > documentation, > so how could this component be accepted into the WiX codebase, if it > violates the basic tennents that WiX and MS set for installations. I > understand that you personally do not have the expertise, but isn't there > someone else inside MS willing to contribute to this product, and if so > many > teams are using this, surely one of them has run into these issues. Any > chance you could ask around? I doubt that I am the only one in this > situation. > > Thanks, > Joshua > > > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Registry-Issue-tf1886724.html#a5199603 Sent from the wix-users forum at Nabble.com.
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