Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to install a 32-bit COM server DLL under ProgramFiles64Folder?

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Baker
just put 32-bit components in the 32-bit file system. Fortunately in this case that is an option. Are there any recommendations on exactly where these components should go? We give the user a choice of install location for our 64-bit components, which defaults to Program Files\Product Name.

Re: [WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Baker
ALLUSERS=2 is a valid setting. Yes, ALLUSERS=2 is valid in general, but I'm interested to know why my installer was perfectly happy with it - even when the source file contained: Condition Message=...ALLUSERS=1/Condition As Thorsten said on his reply, don't worry too much about locking that

[WiX-users] Ensuring an MSI can only be installed per-machine

2010-03-07 Thread Paul Baker
I have set the Package/@InstallScope attribute in my WiX source file to perMachine. As I understand things, this sets the ALLUSERS property to 1. This effectively causes my MSI to default to a per-machine installation, but does not entirely prevent per-user installs since ALLUSERS can be

Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to install a 32-bit COM server DLL under ProgramFiles64Folder?

2010-03-06 Thread Paul Baker
Is there a recommended way to install [COM registration] information into the 32-bit part of the registry from a 64-bit (Win64=yes) component? We're now thinking of registering our COM server using RegistryValue elements, where RegistryValue/@Key contains Wow6432Node. Does anyone know of any

[WiX-users] Is it possible to install a 32-bit COM server DLL under ProgramFiles64Folder?

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Baker
We're currently building an MSI targeting the x64 platform. Most of our binaries are 64-bit, so we have placed each one into a 64-bit component under the ProgramFiles64Folder directory. However, we also need to install a 32-bit COM in-process server DLL. We're having issues because we'd ideally

[WiX-users] WixCop (v3.0) silently succeeds if the source file is not found

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Baker
I'm using the version of WixCop which shipped with the final build of WiX v3.0, passing it a single settings file and a single source file. If the settings file is not found, WixCop displays an error and exits returning 1, fatal error, as expected. However, if the source file is not found, WixCop