Evans, Jim wrote: > What are some of the "best practices" for authoring the installation of > COM components? Obviously, I know selfreg is evil. When it comes to the > registration of COM components, should you author the registry entries > within the same Windows Installer component, or as separate components? >
Each executable and its associated registration should get its own component, since the component is the atomic unit of MSI installation. See "Defining Installer Components" in the MSI SDK for details. That said, it doesn't matter a whole lot, because generally users install whole features, not individual components. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
