Bob, Thanks a bunch. I altered the test scenario to test what you said and reference counting did work as I had originally thought it did. I was unaware that the mechanism had changed along the way (whether that be since MSI infant or sometime as MSI evolved).
Thanks for the input as this further clarified (for me at least) when each type of reference counting should be used. Dave Williamson Clear Sky Software 704.568.5544 sales 704.554.6300 support 704.943.0585 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.clearskysoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 2:29 AM To: Dave Williamson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Eric Fesh'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Request for Advice regarding File Organisation Dave Williamson wrote: > Makes sense. My thoughts were more down the lines of using 3rd party files > and needing to make sure those dependencies are > installed ... things like mscomm32.ocx being installed in the > windows\system32 directory ... up to now I never knew that reference > counting wasn't at a higher level than each install ... I had assumed that > reference counting occurred at a more global level. > You can use Component/@SharedDllRefCount to tell MSI to also track the component using the pre-MSI DLL ref-counting mechanism in the registry. It's not ideal, as it's easy for the ref count to get out of date. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
