Thanks David, Pally, Chris, for your feedback! I've decided revert to my old workflow where I generate the required xml-files on build and then copy them to the target machine during install. I'll continue to harvest heat output manually. No CA:s nor self-registration involved anymore!
P.S. Pally, uninstalling the application would trigger the CA:s to unregister the dlls. I think that would have worked in most cases - but now I don't have to find out. I agree that self-registration should be avoided, but that is actually the recommended practice by ESRI Inc. according to the ArcGIS SDK documentation! /Asker -----Original Message----- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: den 6 april 2011 17:54 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Too many CA:s (LGTH0179) " the installer doesn't need to know about the xml files or about COM registration of the dlls" Really? So what happens when the install fails & it has to rollback or the super unlikely event that someone wants/needs to uninstall your application (or you force an uninstall during a Major Upgrade)? Microsoft themselves warn very strongly against self reg http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204770.aspx#no_selfreg & http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371608.aspx as does the WiX tutorial http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php#6.1 Hell even Symantec give a good account of why it's a very bad idea http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/resons-avoiding-self-registration Also our glorious benefactor Rob Mensching on Custom Actions -> http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/8/17/Zataoca-Custom-actions-are-generally-an-admission-of-failure which definitely applies here. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment Engineer T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] Sent: 06 April 2011 15:47 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Too many CA:s (LGTH0179) Self registration is not usually a good idea, feel free to search the list for "selfreg is evil" to see many discussions as to why. You could also use heat in your build process to make sure the components are up to date. If you do want to proceed though I would write a set of CAs that accept a list of files to register. You could create a custom table to list the files as input to the CAs. -----Original Message----- From: Asker Brodersen [mailto:asker.broder...@esri.se] Sent: 06 April 2011 13:04 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Too many CA:s (LGTH0179) The ESRIRegasm utility being called generates a registration database (xml file) for a dll as well as calls RegAsm. It's required for extending the ArcGIS environment. Currently I have in place a system where the build msbuild script calls this utility so the xml files are generated. These files are then part of the installation. This works, but as soon as a public interface is changed in a dll I need to remember to manually run heat and update the installer. Adding or removing dlls also means adding or removing the corresponding xml file to the installer. Running the ESRIRegasm utility on the dlls after installation takes care of all registration, the installer doesn't need to know about the xml files or about COM registration of the dlls, and the only time I need to revisit the installer is when I want to add or remove a dll. This is what I want to accomplish, and it works as long as I don't have too many dlls to fill up the available sequence numbers after MsiUnpublishAssemblies. But I do... /Asker -----Original Message----- From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] Sent: den 6 april 2011 11:30 To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Too many CA:s (LGTH0179) What is special about your registration that means you can't just heat them, your code implies it's just regasm? -----Original Message----- From: Asker Brodersen [mailto:asker.broder...@esri.se] Sent: 06 April 2011 06:41 To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Too many CA:s (LGTH0179) Hi, During installation/uninstallation we need a special registration of our dll:s. This lead to four CA:s being scheduled for each dll: <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action ="InvokeESRIRegAsm_Cmd_Meldis.Search.dll" After="StartServices">$Meldis.Search.dll>2</Custom> <Custom Action ="InvokeESRIRegAsm_Meldis.Search.dll" After="InvokeESRIRegAsm_Cmd_Meldis.Search.dll">$Meldis.Search.dll>2</Custo m> <Custom Action ="InvokeESRIRegAsm_CmdUninstall_Meldis.Search.dll" After="MsiUnpublishAssemblies">$Meldis.Search.dll=2</Custom> <Custom Action ="InvokeESRIRegAsm_Uninstall_Meldis.Search.dll" After="InvokeESRIRegAsm_CmdUninstall_Meldis.Search.dll">$Meldis.Search.dll=2< /Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence> But as I have close to a hundred dll:s, this results in the LGHT0179 error for MsiUnpublishAssemblies, I presume there simply isn't room in the sequence table for all of them. How do I work around this problem? Thanks, Asker ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. 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