[wix-users] Registering a DLL/OCX file.

[Hoover, Jacob]

I'd strongly suggest looking at registration free COM. If all of your COM needs are in-process, then there is no requirement to register them.  Utilizing tools like mt.exe, you can easily harvest the needed information from native COM DLL's, and for managed ones it's even easier to reference them as a dependentassembly.  This works great if your goal is to install an isolated application, as it avoids any version conflicts if other applications are using different versions of the same type libraries.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of David Watson
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 6:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Registering a DLL/OCX file.

This is a good summary of why it's wrong to do self-registration.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/364187/how-do-you-register-a-win32-com-dll-file-in-wix-3?lq=1



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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Sanket Panchamia
Sent: 23 September 2015 12:33
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Registering a DLL/OCX file.

Can we not use SelfRegCost=1 and then ren the SelfRegModules element to register all entries in the self register table?

Is there a disadvantage doing that?

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Farrukh Waheed <farrukh1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suggest, use Heat to harvest these files without -scom, and update 
> your .wxs file.
> Alternatively, you can write a  .cmd or .bat file, and run the
> regsrv32 on these files at the end of installation, as a custom action.
>
> On 23 September 2015 at 15:04, Suresh, Santhosh Vellore < 
> Santhosh.Suresh at in.unisys.com> wrote:
>
> > HI,
> >
> > Can anyone send me a sample code or how to register a DLL/OCX file 
> > in
> WIX.
> > I have so many Dlls and I cannot run heat.exe to do it.
> > Please advise
> >
> > Regards,
> > Santhosh
> >
> >
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