Artem, As mentioned previously this list will not accept any form of attachments.
You should just link to your wxs files that Heat has created, and your base wxs file for your installer. That will give us more information on what you are doing wrong. http://pastebin.com/ is a good location to use to paste your wxs files, then you can reply and include in the link from the site. You mentioned that you had heat parse the registry. You mean that you had heat process the DLL / OCX (ETC) files to generate the COM entries right? If the DLL (etc) files aren't created quite right, or they do a bit of crazy stuff when registered this can cause problems with Heat. I believe there is also an outstanding bug that Heat can sometimes fail to process 64-bit DLLs.. not sure what the status of this is (perhaps it's resolved now). Have you read the top 5 google results? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gsmyth/archive/2013/01/27/wix-installer-for-vsto-pro jects.aspx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/532447/how-do-you-use-wix-to-deploy-vsto- 3-0-addins http://www.add-in-express.com/creating-addins-blog/2012/11/13/wix-installati on-vsto-office-addin/ http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2010/10/vsto-4-2010-lessons-learned.ht ml http://mgrowan.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/wix-installation-for-excel-add-in/ Regards, Bevan Weiss ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 06:44:02 +0000 From: "Verbuk, Artem" <artem.ver...@intel.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] R: How to install VSTO Excel add-in that use dll with COM-visible objects? Attached is the file with changed extension, change it to "zip". Zipped folder that contains: 1 ExcelAddin.wixproj - WIX setup project file 2 PreBuildEventsOfWixProject.txt - text file, that contains pre build event of the setup project (you can find those in project file also) 3 All "*.wxs" and ".xslt" files of the project Notice that the following files are result of heat.exe work: RegistryKeysForCOM1.wxs RegistryKeysForCOM2.wxs AddinFiles.wxs And I want to clarify my question once again. I want to know what is the exact list of things that I have to do/umplement/unclude in my WIX setup, in order to deploy VSTO add-in for Excel 2007/2010/2013. And it is important to add that my add-in is working with external applications(explained in initial question), since this fact adds a lot to deployment... You see, if you will tell me to change some "A" in my .wxs file to "B" I will be happy to deploy the add-in, but I will probably have problems with making another setup for next version later. So, I want to understand the "why" part first, and then be able to do the "how" part. Many thanks, Artem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
