If anyone does figure it out, it'd be good to understand what is going on. I don't know VB (let alone VB6) and things work great for my C++/ATL based COM objects.
-----Original Message----- From: Troy Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 19:22 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] COM registration weirdness Hi Jim, Did you ever figure this out? I'm in basically the same situation. I have a VB6 application that uss numerous third party COM DLLs, and some in-house .Net COM DLLs. I've included all the appropriate bits of WiX code (AFAICT), but the registration doesn't seem to be effective. Running regsvr32 and regasm on the assemblies after installer gets everything working though. At this point, I'm thinking I'll have to run a batch file at the end of the install to call regsvr32/regasm just to the the thing out the door on schedule. I'm in the process of migrating from an existing Installshield setup to WiX, and we did it with a batch file in the IS installer. One of the big things were were hoping to get out of WiX was to make this happen correctly, instead of with a "duct tape" batch file. Does anyone have an insight that I might be missing? My basic process for getting the WiX code for this was to run heat again the files, generating a wxs, then edit those wxs fragments to compile correctly. This involved moving the class/progid/typelib/interface declarations inside of the file tag, and removing extra registry keys that were in conflict with those tags (IE. removing tags like <RegistryValue Root="HKCR" Key="CLSID\{082EE6CC-A371-37A6-BF8A-090D9BD50A10}\InprocServer32" Value="mscoree.dll" Type="string" Action="write" />)... etc. Thanks, Troy On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Evans, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I know this isn't the exact forum for this, but I'm really confused and > don't know where else to turn. I'm in the process of moving our > installer to an msi-based install using WiX. Our application is fairly > complex, including .NET assemblies, a client-side application, Windows > services that run on a server, a web portal, and COM components on the > server that the service and web portal use. It's these COM components > that are giving me fits. I've created WiX install elements for the COM > components (<Typelib>, <Class>, <ProgId>, <Interface>, etc.), and as far > as I can tell the COM registration is correct. All of the COM registry > entries are getting created by the installer. However, my COM components > cannot be used by their consumers after the installation. > > > > If I use regsvr32 to unregister and reregister the .dll, the COM > components work properly. These are VB6 dlls in the main, but I don't > think that has anything to do with it. I've watched what regsvr32 does > using procmon, and it does look like it's registering my Interface > information twice, but I can't see how that would affect things. I'm > going to try a full registry comparison next, but I was wondering if > anybody here has run into anything like this? > > > > --Jim Evans > > Numara Software, Inc. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
