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Hi all,
Does anyone think that WiX should try to add
explicit support for installing Windows instrumentation features such as event
logs, performance counters (custom .NET ones) and WMI schema? It seems to
me that one of the primary attractions for using installutil.exe for .NET-based
apps is that there are very easy ways to do these things with installer classes
in .NET and it isn't as straightforward or even possible to do that in
WiX.
I realize that event log sources are just a bunch
of registry entries and maybe a message dll file, but it would be convenient if
there was explicit schema in WiX to support this. I expect it would be
easy to translate that schema internally into the appropriate registry and file
table entries to make this work.
My understanding is that perf counters, especially
the .NET ones, are tougher. I do realize that there is already some
support in WiX for native perf counters, so perhaps this could be
extended? I don't really know anything about installing WMI schema, so I
don't know what's involved with making this happen.
I also think it would be interesting if Heat
supported reverse engineering WiX authoring for they types of installer classs
embedded in .NET assemblies, similar to the way it can harvest stuff like COM
registration now.
I don't mention Windows services in this list as
I'm pretty happy with the support these things have in WiX so far. Reverse
engineering service installer classes into WiX authoring would be cool
though.
Thoughts? I started this discussion with
Derek offine a few months ago and he asked me to post here. I just finally
got around to bringing up with the community.
Joe Kaplan
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