[WiX-users] Reference counting for new components in shared COM

2008-07-09 Thread David Ruddock
Hi all, I was wondering how to correctly hand reference counting for components in shared COM (say using an MSM). It seems to me that if two different products are trying to use a same COM components and one upgrades it the reference counting on any new components that are included will be

[WiX-users] Feature tree components installed to incorrect location during Installer Maintenace

2008-02-22 Thread David Ruddock
Hi wix-users, I noticed a bug/issue when using the WixUI containing a feature customization dialog and when not installing to the default location. The INSTALLDIR is not initialized to the previous location used when performing a Change installation, when additional features are installed they

Re: [WiX-users] Migrating merge modules to Wix

2007-10-15 Thread David Ruddock
Hi Bob - thanks for that help. I reverted back to using the same Visual Studio MSM for the WiX installers for this shared COM component (hoping that it would help). Unfortunately it seems that this behaviour (un-installing the VS MSI breaking the COM registration of the shared COM component used