Alright, I think I've got some stuff hacked in place that can prevent an
install on an unprivileged install, now it's time to figure out how to
make my installer actually behave correctly.
I browsed through the Robert Fleming's notes on UACs and MSIs and I'm
not entirely sure what applies to me. I'm not doing any fancy custom
actions or anything, I'm just trying to get my DLL to register correctly
with Windows. I think I must have messed up the registration process
because it registers correctly when UAC is disabled, but not when UAC is
enabled.
Are there any examples showing what a correct COM registration might
look like in WiX? I'm using something like this:
<File Name="theapp.dll" ...>
<AppId ...>
<Class ...>
<ProgId ...>
<ProgId ... />
</ProgId>
</Class>
</AppId>
<TypeLib ...>
<Interface ... />
</TypeLib>
</File>
However, that doesn't appear to set all the registry values I need,
which seems fishy. Specifically, I use <RegistryValue> to manually set
HKCR\AppID\theapp.DLL and a couple of values HKCR\CLSID\{GUID} and
HKCR\TypeLib\{GUID}.
Colin
Wilson, Phil wrote:
I believe the recommendation is to have a type 19 custom action in the
InstallExecuteSequence that is conditioned on the Privileged property,
that will exit the install if you're not privileged. You don't know
whether you're actually privileged until then, after the elevation
prompt could have occurred.
If you have a launcher program then that may elevate either through
installer detection or an explicit manifest requiring administrator
privilege, and if that gets elevated then the launched MSI will also
be elevated.
Phil Wilson
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I think you need to look at the IsPriveleged property in MSI for your
check, and theres some way to make the installer require elevation in
the manifest file. I'm not sure how to do that though. You might
search for UAC manifest MSI or something like that.
Kelly
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[WiX-users] Manually trigger UAC
I'm having problems with my installer and Vista's UAC. I'm looking for
a short term solution that I can put in place while I try to figure out
a real solution. I'm wondering if anyone knows how to do one of two
things:
- Manually trigger the UAC in my installer. I think I have some
strange timing issues and would like to see if things would work better
if I trigger the UAC dialog before I start the actual installation begins.
- If I can't do that, can I create a condition that prevents my
installer from running if it's not running in an elevated mode? This
obviously isn't ideal, but it's better than a broken installer.
Thanks for any tips,
Colin
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