By using heat, you can harvest the COM information from the file and add that to your wix file. This works very well and also get removed correctly when the product is uninstalled. Beats having to write custom actions for install & uninstall.
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] invoking batch file inside wxs file Yes, as Robert suggested, you could register the COM stuff using the <Registry/> element. Jim Williams -----Original Message----- From: Kapoor, Anupama [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:38 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] invoking batch file inside wxs file Hi Jim, I have already tried "deferred" but even that seems to fail. This batch file basically tries to register the COM components on the target machine. So, I want the batch file to run after the installer script has run, i.e after creating the installer, this script has to run to register the components. May be what I am trying to do, is not even possible. Please suggest. Thanks, Anu --- On Tue, 11/18/08, Jim Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Jim Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [WiX-users] invoking batch file inside wxs file To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:10 AM You might want to try deferred execution instead of immediate. This will run the custom action after InstallFinalize when the install script is run. Immediate causes it to be run when it is encountered when creating the installation script. <CustomAction Id='InvokeRegister' Property='CommandProcessorPath' ExeCommand='"[InstallDir]\Register.bat" "[InstallDir]\Drivers" Release x64' Execute='deferred' Impersonate='no' Return='check' /> Jim Williams -----Original Message----- From: Kapoor, Anupama [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:42 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] invoking batch file inside wxs file Hi, I am trying to invoke a batch file from my foo.wxs, which I want it to "run" after my installer has been installed. So, I am doing something like this: <Property Id='CommandProcessorPath' Value='[SystemFolder]/cmd.exe/v:off /c' /> <CustomAction Id='InvokeRegister' Property='CommandProcessorPath' ExeCommand='"[InstallDir]\Register.bat" "[InstallDir]\Drivers" Release x64' Execute='immediate' Impersonate='no' Return='check' /> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action='InvokeRegister' After='InstallFinalize' /> </InstallExecuteSequence> I am running into issues with this. Can you please let me know what is incorrect here? 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