Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-22 Thread Rob Mensching
lso a COM server Would you like this in a bug/feature request? Neil -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: 22 January 2009 16:02 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-22 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Would you like this in a bug/feature request? Neil -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: 22 January 2009 16:02 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server 1

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-22 Thread Rob Mensching
al Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 09:30 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server 1. Looking at the fairly standard set of .Net and VB COM files I would

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-21 Thread Neil Sleightholm
3. Does anybody actually use that other stuff? -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 22:28 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server &

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
t: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 22:28 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server >> Like which ones? Implemented Categories: HKCR\CLSID\{guid1}\Implemented Categories\{guid2} Any entries for assemblie

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-20 Thread Neil Sleightholm
rward HKCR\CLSID\{guid}\MiscStatus HKCR\CLSID\{guid}\ToolBoxBitmap32 Neil -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: 20 January 2009 17:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolse

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Like which ones? -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 09:04 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server Yes that is probably what I

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-20 Thread Neil Sleightholm
: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server Why not use the specific Class, ProgId, TypeLib and Interface elements? That's a much easier way to represent all the same registry keys. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Tuesday, Ja

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-20 Thread John McLean, Jr.
bject: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server I need to produce an msi-style installer for a legacy project and I need to do it fairly quickly. WiX has been recommended to me and so far, so good but one thing eludes me at the moment. One of the targets is both a Win32 Service *a

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-20 Thread Michael Baker
the values from the source registration code. Neil, Thanks for that. I'll give it a try. MikeB -Original Message- From: Michael Baker [mailto:m...@objectivedynamics.co.uk] Sent: 20 January 2009 11:48 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Installing a service wic

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Mensching
ndows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server I would install the service using the elements and then do the COM bit by writing the relevant registry entries using . The hard bit is generating the registry values as I don't think heat can h

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-20 Thread Neil Sleightholm
ource registration code. Neil -Original Message- From: Michael Baker [mailto:m...@objectivedynamics.co.uk] Sent: 20 January 2009 11:48 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server I need to produce an msi-style installer for a l

[WiX-users] Installing a service wich is also a COM server

2009-01-20 Thread Michael Baker
I need to produce an msi-style installer for a legacy project and I need to do it fairly quickly. WiX has been recommended to me and so far, so good but one thing eludes me at the moment. One of the targets is both a Win32 Service *and* a COM server. Does anyone have any details on how to handle th