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0. I think there
is a great opportunity to create a WixManagementExtension for v3. It
would be like the other WiX v3 extension. I wouldn't try to add it to WiX
v2, the improved v3 platform makes it far easier. 1. We talked about
writing an Event extension in the past. As you noted, it needs a couple
registry keys and a file. This would be relatively easy to do in WiX v3
with purely a Compiler and Decompiler Extension. No CustomActions needed. 2. Justin Rockwood
wrote down how to do managed code Perf Counters a long while ago. They are
more involved, but I think it comes down to just writing registry keys
again. If Justin could send that info again, it would be a great
Extension to have. 3. WMI is a lot
more involved. I've had no less than 3 people say they were going to
develop the CustomAction but have never come through. The CustomAction
would be the first thing to get correct. Handling install, uninstall,
repair, and upgrade all in a declarative manner is the tricky part. Once the
table definition is sorted out the Extension can be created to generate those
tables. 4. All of the Installer
class capture stuff does sound like cool ideas. They'd belong in the
Harvester (heat) and act much like the SelfReg code does today. There's a fair bit of
work in making all of that come together. However, there are examples
throughout the wix\src\ext\... directories to show you how it is all done.
If this is interesting to you, I suggest sending an email to the wix-devs mailing
list and starting a discussion about what parts you'd like to work on. From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Kaplan 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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