Best practice is to avoid self-registration - Windows Installer cannot repair what it does not know about.
WiX does not provide any tools to extract registration information from EXEs, only DLLs. This is due to a limitation on the technique used. Some people have reported success with RegCap.exe, a utility that ships with Visual Studio (in Common7\Tools\Deployment), although this utility is undocumented. You can then convert the resulting .reg file with Tallow, although this will generate <Registry> elements rather than the typed Class, Interface, TypeLib elements. I would generally not recommend relying on captures of self-registration code either, however. The results can be to register more than is really necessary or for parts of the self-registration code to fail if used in the unusual environment of registry-capture utilities. (Heat and tallow have particular problems with DLLs using the DLL version of the Visual C++ 2005 C runtime, because the registry keys required to load the side-by-side version of the CRT are not present in the canary environment supplied to the self-registration code). If you possibly can, look at what the self-registration code is doing and turn that into WiX script by hand. Use the Class/@Advertise='No' attribute to make readable scripts which still use the Registry table underneath - see Rob's blog entry http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/03/12/RobMens-Recommendation-Do-no t-advertise-COM-information-in-MSI.aspx for why you would not want to Advertise your COM information. -- Mike Dimmick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of /antoine Sent: 03 May 2007 00:49 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] wix com registration: out of proc server Thanks for your reply. app is not an assembly, just a plain com out of proc server. /antoine wrote: > > Hi, > > i have got an out of proc com server app.exe that an installer must > install > and register. > > how to instruct wix to do the registration? > > the installer needs to accomplish the same effect as: > > app.exe -regserver at install and > app.exe -regserver at un-install > > I am using two custom action to accomplish that: > > <Component Id="app.exe" Guid="{A5E8F545-F3A4-4f55-9B7F-D79786809289}"> > <File Id="app.exe" Name="app.exe" KeyPath="yes" > Source="$(var.dir)\app.exe" /> > </Component> > > <CustomAction Id="RegExe" > FileKey="app.exe" > ExeCommand=" -regserver" > Return="asyncNoWait" > Execute="deferred" /> > > <CustomAction Id="UnRegExe" > FileKey="app.exe" > ExeCommand=" -unregserver" > Return="asyncNoWait" > Execute="deferred" /> > > <InstallExecuteSequence> > <Custom Action="RegExe" After="InstallFiles"><![CDATA[ $app.exe > > 2 > ]]> </Custom> > <Custom Action="UnRegExe" After="InstallFiles"><![CDATA[ $app.exe = 2 > ]]> </Custom> > </InstallExecuteSequence> > > The first custom action works, the second that is invoked at un-install > does > not. is it an action sequencing problem ? > > Thanks. > \antoine > > _________________________________________________________________ > The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. > http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=660600&bcd=EMAILFOOTERAVE RAGE > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/wix-com-registration%3A-out-of-proc-server-tf3678517.h tml#a10296835 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
