Mike Dimmick wrote: > It appears to be part of the Visual Studio SDK, and it's required for a > managed code Visual Studio package. Votive (a managed code Visual Studio > package) requires this. > Technically, it's just for managed-code project types. > I'd ask why it's not made available as an MSM and therefore available to > merge into the Wix3.msi, but I think it's actually because this fixes a buggy > ProjectAggregator.dll from Visual Studio 2005. The correct fix would be a > hotfix to Visual Studio, so presumably this will be included in SP1 and that > will uninstall this MSI. This should be a temporary fix. > It adds a new aggregator as a shared component of Visual Studio. In general, Microsoft wants to be able to service any binaries it ships. That's not possible with merge modules so most Microsoft redistributables are MSIs.
That said, it wouldn't be a safe assumption that VS setup could uninstall a package's aggregator so I doubt SP1 -- even if it includes the new aggregator -- will do so. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
