WIX Heat Wave Brings Changes

re: WIX Heat Wave Brings Changes

Mladen — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:23:41 GMT

Hi,

i've been told that i could use Heat.exe with File harvester to register a .net dll as a com component in the same way that you did Register: vsdraCOM on Dll properties in a standard VS setup project.

I've looked around but i couldn't find an example on how to do this.

Help! :)

re: WIX Heat Wave Brings Changes

brian6p — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:07:28 GMT

@Mladen It is true that you can harvest the registry information from a .NET COM .DLL. Just run "heat.exe file {filename.ext} -out mycom.wxs" If you don't use -sreg or other switches heat.exe will try to harvest infromation from all .dll files.

re: WIX Heat Wave Brings Changes

Mladen — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:28:28 GMT

@brian6p

i've used heat and it output a nice xml but it won't compile and it gives me this error:

The Class element's ForeignServer or Server attribute was not found; one of these is required.

which one should i set and to what?

the class xml is

</Class>

re: WIX Heat Wave Brings Changes

brian6p — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:41:11 GMT

@Mladen It sounds like you are using a .NET COM DLL. It almost sounds like it isn't authored correctly if the ForeignServer isn't already populated with mscoree.dll.

You should move the converstation over to the wix-users forum @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/support. You will have a bigger support group there <grin/>