The recommended way now is typically to run heat.exe to "harvest" the com
registration information out of your DLL. This way it won't actually run the
code from the DLL at install-time (which is more likely to fail, won't handle
all of MSI's transactionality appropriately, and is generally a non-recommended
solution) and instead will figure out what exactly what registry keys your DLL
needs, and put that information into the MSI (the recommended, more robust way).
Generally you run the tool something like this:
Heat file -template:fragment file.dll -out fragment.wxs
This should generate some registry, etc. fragments which you can reference from
the rest of your authoring via ComponentRef or ComponentGroupRef elements.
-----Original Message-----
From: s...@pacaccess.com [mailto:s...@pacaccess.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:49 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Registering a COM DLL
I'm moving from a Visual Studio Deployment Project to WiX. In my old
visual studio deployment project I'm installing a DLL and registering it
via setting the Register property to vsdrfCOMSelfReg, and I wish to do the
same thing with WiX. I didn't see anything about registering COM DLLs in
the WiX documents, but after searching I found a page on registering a COM
DLL:
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/04/28/122491.aspx
Within the blog the author says to use a AssemblyRegisterComInterop
property in a file node:
<File Id='TestAssemblyProductFile' Name='assembly.dll' Assembly='.net'
AssemblyRegisterComInterop='yes' KeyPath='yes' DiskId='1' />
This must have been for an older version of WiX because WiX3 doesn't seem
to have this.
Are there any tutorials on how to have WiX register a COM DLL?
Thanks,
Jeff
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