Can you provide the full stack trace and open a bug? This is definitely an
issue with Dark and it would be good to get it sorted out. There are several
cases where the casts are wrong or nullable fields are not be treated correctly.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Murray
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 17:17
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Decompiling Visual Studio MSI
I found version 3.0.3907.0 at http://wix.sf.net/releases/ a few weeks ago.
It seems to be the latest I can find. Can anyone replicate my problem of
trying to decompile VS MSI install packages?
Thanks in advance.
Mike
From: Rob Mensching<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:10 PM
To: Mike Murray<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ;
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Decompiling Visual Studio MSI
What version of the WiX toolset are you using?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mike Murray
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 14:57
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [WiX-users] Decompiling Visual Studio MSI
I have a Setup Project in Visual Studio 2008 for a product we have created. I
would like to move it to WiX so that I can have more control over the installer
package creation.
I tried using the Dark utility on it to decompile it into a WiX source file.
It fails by throwing an InvalidCastException when it reaches the Control table
while trying to get the X column value (saying it's "Unable to cast object of
type 'System.Int32' to type System.String'").
I looked through the source of Dark.exe and the only thing I could find is that
the Control object stores the X property as a String, but I wonder if the
ColumnDefinition for X is declared as (or dynamically inferred as) an Integer.
Then when it calls the X property's get method, it tries to get the value out
of the Fields property using a string cast of the object rather than a
Convert.ToInt32() call. But I'm not totally sure...
Anyway, I tried this with a very small test application and setup project. It
also got the InvalidCastException at the same spot. So it appears maybe all
Visual Studio produced MSI installer are having this problem when trying to
decompile them using Dark?
Any thoughts or ideas how I can migrate to WiX? Thanks in advance.
Mike
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