It is interesting that you mention the Assembly Name from the MSI tables. When I first got the error, I was looking in the ComPlusAssembly table and noticed that the AssemblyName column was blank. I tried adding the AssemblyName attribute for my COM+ assembly, thinking that it would help the custom action with finding the file in the GAC, but that didn't have any effect.
The MsiAssemblyName table seems to have appropriate entries: EnterpriseServicesHost_GAC name MyProduct.EnterpriseServicesHost EnterpriseServicesHost_GAC version 0.0.0.1 EnterpriseServicesHost_GAC culture neutral EnterpriseServicesHost_GAC publicKeyToken CF47A01D50A7B0F5 EnterpriseServicesHost_GAC processorArchitecture MSIL When I monitored MSIEXEC using ProcMon, the only thing that seemed odd was an open file request on C:\WINNT\GAC\MyProduct.EnterpriceServicesHost\0.0.0.1_CF47A01D50A7B0F5\MyProduct.EnterpriseServicesHost.dll, or something like that. The Previous file activity involved the C:\WINNT\GAC_MSIL tree. That seemed not right to me, but I don't know anything about the Fusion API. - Don Benson - > -----Original Message----- > From: Fredrik Grohn [mailto:fredrik.gr...@microsoft.com] > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 2:47 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC > into COM+ > > On top of that it was all written on Windows 2000 originally. It could > have something to do with the assembly name that is being extracted > from the MSI tables. > > In any case I would also recommend going with your option 1 below, for > the sake of general robustness. As long as you can live with the file > duplication. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:39 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC > into COM+ > > Note: Fredrik wrote the COM+ installation code. His answers are far > more > authoritative than mine. > > Don Benson wrote: > > I never had this functionality previously working. I am a new user to > WiX (just since the beginning of the month), going through the process > of converting Wise for Windows Installer projects (yes, it's an ancient > tool!) to WiX. > > > > Based on what Rob is saying, it does certainly seem to a Fusion > issue, at least with .NET 2.0 on Windows 2000. I haven't tested on 2003 > or 2008 servers yet, but that won't really matter because I have to > support Windows 2000 for at least a year or more. If I could use COM+ > 1.5, I wouldn't be using the GAC at all. I would prefer use private > assemblies in conjunction with the application directory attribute of > the COM+ application. > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Fredrik Grohn [mailto:fredrik.gr...@microsoft.com] > >> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 2:23 PM > >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC > >> into COM+ > >> > >> This is actually supposed to work. Though neither Fusion or COM+ > where > >> designed with deployment in mind, so plenty of unexpected things > seems > >> to happen here. > >> > >> This probably has something to do with Fusion, but I am at a loss to > >> tell what. > >> > >> Are you saying that you have had it working with a previous WiX > build > >> BTW? > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Don Benson [mailto:dben...@trulinx.com] > >> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:06 AM > >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC > >> into COM+ > >> > >> That is what I did, and it was easy to do. > >> > >> So what is the purpose of the DLLPathFromGAC attribute on the > >> ComPlusAssembly element? It doesn't seem like it has any use as of > >> build 3.0.5006 unless you are using to register a DLL that already > was > >> previously installed, and I'm not sure what installation scenario > would > >> do that. > >> > >> Thanks for the informative and prompt responses! > >> > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] > >>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:52 PM > >>> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > >>> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trouble registering .NET assembly from GAC > >>> into COM+ > >>> > >>> Option 1 may be the best. All of that "install/upgrade/uninstall > >>> stuff" > >>> you listed on that line is good stuff and difficult to do well. > >>> > >>> > >>>> Option 1: > >>>> Include the .NET DLL in the GAC and in a folder, which requires > >>>> > >>> separate components for the file. I've seen threads about deploying > >>> .Net assemblies to both places. 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