Several action don't seem to be intended to be found in MSMs. Maybe AppSearch is one of them.
Do you distribute your MSM publically? If not, I've got a couple of ideas. 1) Run a couple of SQL queries against the MSM to remove them from the two Module*Sequence tables. 2) Change from using MSMs and instead generate/consume WixLibs instead. If you do distribute MSMs publically then each idea I have has limitations. -----Original Message----- From: Joost van Zoest [mailto:jzo...@siqura.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:41 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual C++ 2010 Merge Module I've validated my MSM in Orca. At first, I got a lot of ICE33 warnings because of some COM registration logic. To rule out that this was causing my problems, I removed this registration logic and validated the MSM again. Now the validation completes, but ends with: Execution ERROR There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. I'm using Orca with the darice.cub of WIX 3.6 BETA Looking further in Orca, I saw 2 tables (ModuleInstallExecuteSequence and ModuleInstallUISequence) which both contained an action called AppSearch with a Sequence of 50. I guess the actions of these tables are moved to the InstallExecuteSequence and InstallUISequence tables when you embed this merge module into an installer. So could this be the cause of the warnings I see when I build my installer? Somewhere in my merge module I perform a registry search to get a directory from the registry: <Property Id="MYDIRECTORY"> <RegistrySearch Id="REG_DirectorySearch" Type="raw" Root="HKLM" Key="Software\MyApplication" Name="InstallDir"/> </Property> *MYDIRECTORY is the ID of a Directory element. When I remove this registry search, the AppSearch actions are also removed from the 2 tables. And I don't get the warnings anymore when I build the installer containing this merge module. The original problem, that a registry key was not written when you run the installer, is also gone now. Am I using the RegistrySearch in a correct way? Or is there another way to fill the Directory element with a value from the registry? -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 1:30 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual C++ 2010 Merge Module The only reason I asked is because the guid that suffixes the property names is supposed to be the MSM's Package @Id, and there should be no reason that your MSM is using another MSMs properties. However, that appears to be a red herring (the "duplicate sequence number" warnings are expected in that scenario). The purpose of the duplicate sequence warnings is to make you look to ensure that there isn't any sequencing expectation between the actions being merged. Setting the values of the system directories doesn't generally have that concern. The concern I see looking more closely at your build spew is the "action [that] cannot be merged" report. Are the names of the actions really blank ('') or did you remove the action names? If you look at your MSM in Orca (or other MSI viewer/editor), does it really have entries in the sequence tables with blank or missing action names? Does your MSM pass validation by itself? Blair -----Original Message----- From: Joost van Zoest [mailto:jzo...@siqura.com] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:58 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual C++ 2010 Merge Module If you mean if I've used guids which are also used in the VC MSM, then no. I've tested this by generating completely new guids for my merge module, and still I got the warnings. Thanks for the idea though, didn't think of this obvious error... -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 9:07 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual C++ 2010 Merge Module Did you borrow VC's MSM's package guid for your MSM? This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. 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