Today I found myself googling for a way to fix TCP/IP on my dev machine after uninstall corrupted TCP/IP. I remembered, after about 1.5 hours, that somebody had a similar problem about a month ago. In his case, he was converting an InstallShield package to WiX. I’m writing my package from scratch. *We are both using heat.exe.*
After reading Chris Painters post at http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2007/08/hotfix-com-extraction-causes-system.html I looked through the Registry table of my package to see if I could find the keys described in the InstallShield hotfix but didn't find any of them. I did find the following: Root: 2 Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters Name: WinSock_Registry_Version Value: 2.0 Root: 2 Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5 Name: Num_Catalog_Entries Value: #0 Root: 2 Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5 Name: Serial_Access_Num Value: #1 Root: 2 Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5\Catalog_Entries Name: <null> Value: <null> Root: 2 Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\Protocol_Catalog9 Name: Num_CatalogEntries Value: #0 Root: 2 Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\Protocol_Catalog9 Name: Next_Catalog_Entry_ID Value: #1001 Root: 2 Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\Protocol_Catalog9 Name: Serial_Access_Num Value: #1 All of these rows were associated with the same component which was associated with *Microsoft.Data.Schema.Sql.dll.* I looked at the generated source and found: <Component Id="cmp..." Directory="dir..." Guid="*"> <File Id="fil..." KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\Database\Microsoft.Data.Schema.Sql.dll" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="Software\Microsoft\Tracing\RASAPI32" Name="EnableFileTracing" Value="0" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="Software\Microsoft\Tracing\RASAPI32" Name="EnableConsoleTracing" Value="0" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="Software\Microsoft\Tracing\RASAPI32" Name="FileTracingMask" Value="-65536" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="Software\Microsoft\Tracing\RASAPI32" Name="ConsoleTracingMask" Value="-65536" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="Software\Microsoft\Tracing\RASAPI32" Name="MaxFileSize" Value="1048576" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="Software\Microsoft\Tracing\RASAPI32" Name="FileDirectory" Value="C:\WINDOWS\tracing" Type="string" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="Software\Microsoft\Tracing" Name="EnableConsoleTracing" Value="0" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="System\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaProperties\PrivateProperties\Joystick\Winmm" Name="wheel" Value="1" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5\Catalog_Entries" Value="" Type="string" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5" Name="Num_Catalog_Entries" Value="0" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5" Name="Serial_Access_Num" Value="1" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\Protocol_Catalog9\Catalog_Entries" Value="" Type="string" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\Protocol_Catalog9" Name="Num_Catalog_Entries" Value="0" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\Protocol_Catalog9" Name="Next_Catalog_Entry_ID" Value="1001" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\Protocol_Catalog9" Name="Serial_Access_Num" Value="1" Type="integer" Action="write" /> <RegistryValue Root="HKLM" Key="System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters" Name="WinSock_Registry_Version" Value="2.0" Type="string" Action="write" /> </Component> My first gut impression is _craziness!_ This must have just been random coincidence, right? I see "Joystick" in there... Microsoft.Data.Schema.Sql.dll can't possibly care about the joystick, could it? Anyway, this smells like a bug to me but I don't know enough to determine if this is really a heat.exe bug. I can filter out these entries easily enough so I have a workaround for now. Is this really a bug? Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. 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