I think that's rather unfair. I do not understand the problem that Colin is having. There really haven't been enough details (or I may have missed them) about what is being registered, how it is being registered or what the whole thing is doing. At this point in time, it sounds like there is something wrong in the code or the actual registration on Vista.
Blaming the complexity of COM registration on installation technology is also rather unfair. COM registration is complex. COM registration documentation is poor. Debugging COM registration errors is painful. None of that has anything to do with the fact that installation technologies are responsible for writing registry keys that are supposed to make COM work. If you're going to rant, at least attack the right technology. <smile/> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Friedrich Dominicus Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 00:04 To: Kelly Leahy Cc: Neil Enns; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Create EXE wrapper around my MSI? Kelly Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It sounds like your registration is happening in the wrong 'stage' of the > install... Just because you're > elevated in some places, it doesn't mean the entire run of the install is > elevated. I think the elevation > only occurs during the installexecutesequence, and only during the > server side part of it, and maybe not even > the whole thing. > I'm sure this comment isn't all that helpful, but maybe it will point you in > the right direction. Can you > actually tell where the registration is sequenced? Please do not take this as a personal critique. You wrote "I think" .... So that means you are not sure, which is fine but the answers here are often "I think" that means to me the whole not I'm getting "personal" "crap" of MSI was just invented to make programmers live as hard as possible. There is a whole sorry (brain-dead) machinery needed to get something installed and it's even worse if one get's into the COM or even worse device installation area. Just how many tools do exist for "building" installers? What the hell do we gain with such complex installation voodo? Regards Friedrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
