Oh Biztalk, yet another Microsoft product that didn't think about deployment properly. Sorry for being cynical and unhelpful but this one has bitten me before!
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Robert O'Brien [mailto:robert.obr...@microsoft.com] Sent: 27 February 2009 23:10 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] is there a way to get a dll.config file deployed along side a gac destined file, e.g. a <File .../> entry with Assembly=".net" defined? Our service deliverable msi is installing a biztalk 2009 application. As is the case with all things bts everything it uses needs to get deployed to the gac. One of those bts resource dll's makes use of the vs08 settings designer/api for externally exposing runtime settings you want to be able to tweak w/o having to rebuild, i.e. settings designer == <project> | properties | Settings | Settings.Default.MySettingsDesignerCreatedAndMaintainedRunTimeValue = 12345 settings api == <some type implementation>.cs | int someExternallyConfigurableRuntimeSetting = Settings.Default.MySettingsDesignerCreatedAndMaintainedRunTimeValue; For that gac deployed dll to have its settings api calls able to retrieve the dll.config stored runtime settings the dll.config has to be placed in the same directory as the dll. I tried the following two options and the first doesn't work because it seems the file copy to the gac of the dll.config gets cleared when MsiPublishAssemblies processing of the Assembly=".net" dll file setting is processed. I tried the second option I could think of which was to add the custom action sequenced to happen after MsiPublishAssemblies and even though the verbose logs show it successfully copying the dll.config to the right path it is not there after setup competes. Not sure what process is deleting that file copy. I can copy the custom action statement out of the verbose log and run it after setup completes and it does what I'd expect. Any thoughts on why that's happening and more importantly how I can get this dll.config file deployed along side its parent gac deployed dll as part of my wix sources would be very much appreciated. <Component Id="Sdk1Gac14" Guid="A6D64010-D181-40BF-9ABC-BA15633E1F45"> <File Id="Sdk1GacDataEntities.Providers.dll" Name="MyGacDestinedAssembly.dll" Source="$(var.MyGacDestinedAssembly.TargetPath)" Assembly=".net" KeyPath="yes" /> </Component> </DirectoryRef> <DirectoryRef Id="GacMsilDir"> <Directory Id="Sdk1Gac14Dir" Name="MyGacDestinedAssembly"> <Directory Id="Sdk1Gac14VersionTokenDir" Name="2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35"> <Component Id="Sdk1Gac14DllCfg" Guid="*"> <File Id="MyGacDestinedAssembly.dll.config" Name="MyGacDestinedAssembly.dll.config" Source="$(var.MyGacDestinedAssembly.TargetPath).config" KeyPath="yes" /> </Component> </Directory> </Directory> </DirectoryRef> <CustomAction Id="SetSdk1Gac14DllCfg" Property="RunSdk1Gac14DllCfg" Value=""[WindowsFolder]system32\cmd.exe" /c copy "[#Site1Vdir3BinMyGacDestinedAssembly.dll.config]" "[Sdk1Gac14VersionTokenDir]"" /> <CustomAction Id="RunSdk1Gac14DllCfg" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="deferred" Return="ignore" /> <Custom Action="SetSdk1Gac14DllCfg" After="MsiPublishAssemblies">!Sdk1=2 And &Sdk1=3 And ?Sdk1Gac14=2 And $Sdk1Gac14=3</Custom> <Custom Action="RunSdk1Gac14DllCfg" After="SetSdk1Gac14DllCfg">!Sdk1=2 And &Sdk1=3 And ?Sdk1Gac14=2 And $Sdk1Gac14=3</Custom> -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 10:11 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] is there a way to get a dll.config file deployed along side a gac destined file, e.g. a <File .../> entry with Assembly=".net" defined? I don't believe there is any supported way, WiX or otherwise, to put a config file in the GAC. I am curious why you would want to? Neil -----Original Message----- From: Robert O'Brien [mailto:robert.obr...@microsoft.com] Sent: 27 February 2009 17:15 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] is there a way to get a dll.config file deployed along side a gac destined file, e.g. a <File .../> entry with Assembly=".net" defined? is there a way to get a dll.config file deployed along side a gac destined file, e.g. a <File .../> entry with Assembly=".net" defined? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
