Uhh, it sounds like you need to read the code. Heat has to call into the DLL (using SelfReg) to capture the registry keys. If you can't do that then heat can't help you. Thus your only option is to actually understand the code that is called during SelfReg and pull out all those registry keys.
Personally, I tell all developers to never write SelfReg and just write their registration in the appropriate .wxs files for their setup. Saves the whole "capture" nonsense. Wayne Guidry wrote: > 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. > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <4a26a3d0.4060...@wixtoolset.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed > > 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 >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises > looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest > innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and > enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. > Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
