If you must use managed code for a CustomAction (native code is better) 
use DTF instead of InstallUtil. InstallUtil is just a glorified self-reg 
and self-reg is well known to be bad for installation. DTF is included 
as part of the WiX toolset.

Glenn Macgregor wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am new to wix, from what I have seen thus far it is great. I have a windows 
> service which I install using the ServiceInstall and ServiceControl tags. 
> That part works fine, the service gets installed as expected. Along with the 
> service exe file I also install a dll which has WMI instrumented code and the 
> necessary installers (DefaultManagementInstaller and 
> DefaultManagementProjectInstaller).
>
> The only way I can see to get that working is to call installutil dllname, 
> that handles installing the necessary instrumentation into the system. Do I 
> need to use installutil inside a wix installer or is there a builtin 
> mechanism to do this? If not how can I add the necessary installutil calls to 
> the wix project?
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
>  Glenn
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