The other thing to worry about is that RegAsm on an assembly will generate a type library and register it. RegAsm /regfile will create you a reg file but will not generate any type library Interface entries. Whether this matters or not depends on your COM interfaces, but if it does matter then an explicit type library needs generating for Heat etc to create HKCR\Interface entries for.
Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 8:55 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Elfe Xu Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Question about register .net COM object regasm /regfile doesn't always work because if you have any user defined register functions they will not be in the regfile. From what I've seen of heat, it's not vunerable to this extraction problem. InstallShield does have this problem. Personally I wrote a little UI over heat that watches a directory for changes and spits out a wix fragment. I just scrape up the harvested XML and paste it into my installer source. ----- Original Message ---- From: "gree...@cox.net" <gree...@cox.net> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Elfe Xu <elf...@microsoft.com> Sent: Sat, June 12, 2010 2:48:58 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Question about register .net COM object I saw regasm in the CustomAction element, so I am assuming that this is a .NET assembly exposing COM objects. Use the /reg option to create a .reg file containing all of the registry settings. Then you can manually enter these values into the Wix projects. Wix has some tools that can automate some of this, but check the results and make sure what you have is correct. What you may need to do is run a CA to set the Codebase value in the registry for the installed COM .NET assembly.. The value regasm puts in the .REG file will not be value for the install. Regards, greenaj ---- Elfe Xu <elf...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying a CA > <CustomAction Id="RegT" ExeCommand="blablabla\RegAsm.exe T.dll" > Execute="immediate" /> > and found it can only success if I make the CA run after InstallFinalized. > Otherwise, it will fail. > > I think the right way is to use Class element, but I just cannot make the > result the same as I execute regasm.exe. > Here is my trying: > <Component Id ="TestComponent" >Guid="D75C79A1-83C9-467D-89FB-4B7E081401CE" Win64="$(var.USEWIN64)" > > <File Id="TestCOM" Assembly=".net" Name="Test.dll" DiskId="1" >Source="..\..\TestCOM.dll" KeyPath="yes"> > <Class Id="CE13T9EC-3BE1-4292-89C4-243ERF42967B" > Description="test com" > ThreadingModel="both" > Context="InprocServer32" > <ProgId Id="MyTestCOM" /> > </Class> > </File> > </Component> > I just cannot find way to set lots of other stuffs, like > Implemented Categories with value {62C8FE65-4EBB-45e7-B440-6E39B2CDBF29} > The Assembly, Class, RuntimeVersion under InprocServer32. > I want to set the ForeignServer with mscoree.dll, but wix says it cannot be > used under <File>. > > I guess I might doing totally wrong. Anyone can give me a sample of how to do > the register? > > Another question is: when I want to add the .net assembly into wix project > reference, why I get the error of "Test.dll could not be added. Please make > sure that the file is accessible, and that it is a valid WiX reference." > Because of this failure, I can only add the file by the relevant path. Not > sure if it is a cause of the register failure. > > Thanks, > -Elfe > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. 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