Can you give us the corresponding .wxs code? Best regards, Sebastian Brand
Deployment consultant E-Mail: sebast...@instyler.com Instyler Setup - Creating WiX-based MSI installations, elegantly. http://www.instyler.com On 18.11.2009, at 21:13, Rich Daniel wrote: > I'm in the process of migrating my app installation to wix. It's a .NET 2.0 > app that currently uses installutil to add some custom performance counters > and event log sources. Seeing as how I noticed that WixUtilExtension.dll > supplies this functionality from the installer, I thought I'd give it a try > instead. > > I'm rubbing up against an issue, however. The installation completes just > fine, but the moment my app attempts to modify a counter, it goes bang with > the following exception: > > System.InvalidOperationException: PerformanceCounterInstanceLifetime.Process > is not valid in the global shared memory. If your performance counter > category was created with an older version of the Framework, it uses the > global shared memory. Either use PerformanceCounterInstanceLifetime.Global, > or if applications running on older versions of the Framework do not need to > write to your category, delete and recreate it. > > If I believe that error, the way I've defined the counters in my wxs file > installs them in the global shared memory (or uses the .NET 1.* approach to > install them). Is there a way to tell it to do things the new way instead of > the old or should I give up for now and just have some custom actions call > installutil once the bits land on the box? > > Thanks > - Rich Daniel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
