The versions of the file are the same. Actually
it was the same physical file just to be sure (I used the extracted file from
the msm).
OK. So now I'm back to using the Tallow generated
code (because it works) but I'm at a cross roads. Rob has said that the
component's GUID is super important when trying to keep up with shared files
installed on a machine ... in this case the shared file is a vb 6 ocx
control. And the Tallow code does not match the Dark code of the msm so
technically I should not use the msm component GUID with the tallow code because
they are different ... yet what is being accomplished is installing a shared
file, mscomm32.ocx, on the end user's system32 dir, registered, and
reference counted ... and that does need to be coordinated with other folks
installing that same file.
If I use the same GUID then the mscomm32.ocx should not
be uninstalled prematurely if my app is uninstalled and other apps that have
installed the ocx are still installed.
If I use a different GUID then the mscomm32.ocx could
be uninstalled if the basic reference counting is out of
whack.
What a [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you
do and [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you don't situation.
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:48 PM To: Dave Williamson Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSComm32.ocx MSM not registering ocx Yes, tallow doesn't know how to use the strongly-typed COM-registration elements. (Heat, in WiX v3, does.) So it just turns them into registry values. The only other suggestion I can think of is to check the files in the merge module, to make sure you're using the same version. It's been ages since I worried about COM evils.<g> -- sig://boB http://bobs.org |
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