I am working on an issue that we are seeing when our WiX project creates shortcuts to target files that require assemblies to be already installed onto the machine.
Okay here is the issue. We run our install, all shortcuts are created and the install completes without issues. The app and all shortcuts work and therefore everything looks okay, but when we open up the Event Viewer it will show side by side assembly errors on these apps. We thought that something was triggering the apps during install, but again we see no errors during the install. But in event viewer there were always 2 sxs errors for each app that had a shortcut created. So we checked the install and under the Shortcut Id entries we were only referencing IconIndex and Target .exe. So we figured that during install it has to extract the shortcut from the .exe and therefore that is what caused the issue. So we switched to use Icon="file.ico", where we just reference a .ico file. We ran the install again and this time instead of 2 sxs errors for each app there is only one. So just to verify we turned off the shortcuts and after running the install there are NO sxs errors. So has anyone ran into this before and if so how do we fix it. It is not a high bug as the app installs and runs and it is only in Event Viewer that you see these, but in the case where our install or app fail we normally ask for Install and Event Viewer logs and having these extra sxs errors just makes it more confusing as to what the actual errors are. So if anyone knows how to fix this or other methods to avoid these issues that would be great. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Shortcut-creation-seems-to-cause-sxs-assembly-error-in-Event-Viewer-tp7589133.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
