I have a small utility that I find useful in registering COM. Basically it puts a filesystem watcher on a directory and runs heat whenever it see's a change.
Basically I drop a DLL/OCX into the directory and if I don't see COM elements I open up depends and start copying in all of it's dependencies until it works. Then I just copy and paste the XML and move along. Not quiet as easy as InstallShield's Right Click | Extract COM but I have to do it so infrequently that it's not a big deal. ---------------------------------------- From: "Neil Sleightholm" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:51 PM To: "Wixlist Smith" <[email protected]>, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Tutorials and help links? There is a WiX book which may be of value "WiX A Developers Guide to Windows Installer XML" (http://www.amazon.com/WiX-Developers-Guide-Windows-Installer/dp/1849513724) . Bottom line with COM is write all registry entries directly with WiX code rather than selfreg - it is hard work but pays off in terms of reliability. Also, if your environment/code supports it try regfree COM, that is a lot less hassle http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2009/08/registration-free-com.html. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Wixlist Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 24 January 2012 21:33 To: [email protected] Subject: [WiX-users] Tutorials and help links? Greetings New to the community, please forgive me if I'm asking stupid questions. Nevertheless, desperate times call for desperate measures, so here goes: I've been working through the tutorial over at http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial. Are there any others out there (of equal depth) as well? Would like to find something with a bit more step-by-step on certain topics. Specifically I'm working on creating installers that will pull in multiple activex files (dll and exe) and register them properly as well as unregister properly. Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
