This is also necessary when accessing x64 areas of the file system. I have 64-bit versions of some of my custom actions when this is necessary.
-- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS 66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Norman [mailto:daniel.nor...@snowsoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:55 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction built for AnyCPU does not read 64-bit registry hive Hi, I had to create two separate binaries for this, in a similar case. One built for x64, the other x86 - then I trigger the appropriate one depending on the OS architecture. The issue is that C# Registry.LocalMachine will run against the Wow6432Node in the registry, if the binary is 32-bit. This was my way of how to easiest resolve it, but if you figure out some other way, feel free to let us know :) Kind regards, Daniel Norman Support Specialist -----Original Message----- From: wixtester [mailto:sangee...@hotmail.com] Sent: den 8 januari 2015 13:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction built for AnyCPU does not read 64-bit registry hive I may have not been clear in my earlier emails, sorry about that. I have a C# custom action that uses Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey. I am building this custom action with AnyCPU. The custom action searches for JRE on the system and set a value to Session variable. I have 64-bit JRE installed on the machine. When the installer runs, it doesn't seem to search the 64-bit registry when run on 64-bit Operating system, which is quite confusing. My understanding is that the msiexec process that runs the custom action will be 64-bit in this case and will launch the CA as 64-bit too. I also confirmed with Corflags that the customAction was built correctly. I don't think marking the custom action as 'Defer' matters here. Custom Action definition ---------------------------- <Binary Id="provisionCA" SourceFile="$(var.ProvCustomAction.TargetDir)Provision.CA.dll" /> <CustomAction Id='customActioncheckJavaHomeEnvVar' BinaryKey='provisionCA' DllEntry='SearchJRE' Execute="immediate" Return="check"/> Snippet from custom action ------------------------------- session.Log("Begin SearchJRE"); RegistryKey root = Registry.LocalMachine; string path = @"Software\Javasoft\Java Runtime Environment"; using (RegistryKey jreRoot = root.OpenSubKey(path)) { if (jreRoot == null) { session.Log("Java is not installed. JRE entry not found in registry at " + path); session["JAVA_HOME_PATH"] = "0"; return ActionResult.Success; } ..... ..... 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