These should still work for self-registering exes, here: http://installsite.org/pages/en/msi/tips.htm
Scroll down to RegSpy. It indeed uses CreateRemoteThread and RegOverridePredefKey. Somebody also extended it to do tlbs, RegSpy2. The source is all there. The original magazine article is here: http://www.ddj.com/windows/184416328 RegAsm is basically RegistrationServices.RegisterAssembly and TypeLibConverter.ConvertAssemblyToTypeLib, so all the pieces exist - they just need putting together. Anyway Heat does assemblies and type libraries anyway, yes? Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Thomas S. Trias [mailto:tomtr...@artizan.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:56 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Does anyone know how best to capture the registry changes made by RegAsm / RegTlib? Well, RegAsm has the /regfile switch, but it doesn't work with the /tlb option; RegTLib has no such switch; I suppose I could embark on the wonderful world of code injection (which I'm sure my virus scanner will love), but even with CreateRemoteThread it looks pretty nasty. I recall how interesting it was to write a thunk to push an extra parameter onto the stack in VB (nothing like storing assembly in data structures). I will scour the web for a TLB utility that generates a reg file. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Does anyone know how best to capture the registry changes made by RegAsm / RegTlib? From: Thomas S. Trias <tomtr...@artizan.com> To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: 3/3/2009 1:31 PM > Heat works well for self-registered DLLs; is there a similar technique > that one can use for the results of RegAsm / RegTlib on a .NET > assembly / type library? Is there a way to get a child process to > inherit the Registry re-mappings? The same thing would be useful for > self-registered EXEs. > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
