I was able to fix this issue - my windows form reads and writes values to
and from the registry... it turned out that the way WIX was creating the
registry key was making it unreadable somehow. The weird part was that the
form was able to read from a couple of keys (both created by WIX), but
unable to read/write from the same key's sub-keys.
For anyone else who has the same issue, I have found that setting the
"Action" attribute to Action="createKeyAndRemoveKeyOnUninstall" (for a type
string registry key) works just fine. I don't know if this is a bug, or I
just made a mistake configuring the keys.
This is what I had initially when the form was crashing because WIX (or I)
made the key unreadable -- this key had sub-keys and another registry key
defined with the same signature:
<Registry Root='HKLM' Key='SOFTWARE\MyCompany\App1' Action='write'>
This is what fixed it (I had to set the Action to
"createKeyAndRemoveKeyOnUninstall" for all the sub-keys and parent keys):
<Registry Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\MyCompany\App1"
Action="createKeyAndRemoveKeyOnUninstall">
Also, I used tallow to create the WIX fragment and one thing I noticed was
that tallow doesn't decorate the Registry elements with the "Action"
attribute, which also didn't seem to work in my case.
Thanks!
On 2/13/07, Johan Appelgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/14/07, Dhaval Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know if this issue is WIX related, or something completely
random. I
> had developed an app that was deployed using "Xcopy" via a batch file.
> Recently my PM decided to port it to WIX because of my newly gained "WIX
> powers." Anyway, this app has a bunch of .dll files and a Windows Forms
app
> that references a couple of these .dll files. There are no
problems with
> the installer and everything installs just fine. But as soon as I try
and
> launch the .exe file (the Windows Form), it crashes. The Windows Forms
app
> has no problems, whatsoever, if deployed via Xcopy. I am not sure if how
I
> have laid out my "Components" (the "Name" attribute for backward
> compatiblity, etc.) in the WIX file is screwing up somehow...
>
> This is a .NET 2.0 app being deployed on W2K3 server. I haven't tried
> installing it on XP.
>
> Thanks in advance, folks!
How does the application crash? The exception should give you some
clues to track down the problem. Although since it works when you copy
the files a possible cause could be that one or more of the files are
missing or were installed in the wrong location.
/Johan
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