I'm using the latest build of WIX v3.0.5217.0.
here's the background info on what I'm trying to do...
I have a .NET 2.0 Assembly that has "register for COM interop" selected and I
need to build an installer package that performs the capability of
"registering" the Assembly with COM so it can be used. At this point, I don't
necessarily need the Assembly in the GAC, just COM registration on it. So in
the past I was using heat.exe to harvest the registry keys from the Assembly
into a wix file and everything worked great. Now I'm trying to do the same
thing and am receiving a WIX Error Code of 5151 (I don't have the actual
message, but it was something like: Could not harvest data from a file that is
of type Assembly, System.Exception was thrown. That's not the verbose error,
but close enough. Even trying to gather information from a tlb file does not
work.
What I just discovered today is I don't have this problem on a standalone
machine but the primary machine I use on our network does have it so I think it
is not a problem with WIX, but with a group policy. I have a suspicion that
heat is trying to use regsvr32 to harvest the registry information from the
Assembly. If so, that is a problem for me because our admin has completely
removed the ability for us to use regsvr32 (we have to do our registration via
Visual Studio which seems to do "register for com interop" differently).
Anyway, so now I'm stuck trying to figure out how to best perform "register for
com interop" on a .NET assembly with WIX, other than using heat or (if heat
doesn't call regsvr32) figuring out why it isn't working.
I noticed the COMPlusAssembly Element and thought that might be the same as
"register for com interop" but I'm not sure which is the reason for bringing it
up in the last post. :)
Any suggestions/ideas?
Thanks for your help
guid
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:24:48 -0700
From: Rob Mensching <r...@wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Assembly registration with wix 3.0
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
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ComPlusAssembly is for COM+. If you don't know what that is, you
definitely do not want to use it (COM+ is crazy). <smile/>
Can you be more specific about the heat error and the actual WiX toolset
version you are using?
Wayne Guidry wrote:
> Haven't used wix in a couple of months and just upgraded to a later version.
> I'm pretty sure in the past I could use heat.exe to extract registry
> information from an Assembly however now I get a warning saying something
> like Could not harvest data from a file that is an Assembly or something to
> that affect. So I started poking around to see how to do this and the only
> other thing I found is an element called ComPlusAssembly which appears to do
> something similar. So should I be using ComPlusAssembly or manually putting
> all the registry COM information using something like heat?
>
> Thanks
> guid
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