[wix-users] Registering OCXs, Burn, and Typelib issues

Phil Wilson phil.wilson at mvps.org
Thu Jul 28 09:44:16 PDT 2016


If you scout around you may find the merge modules or redist packages that
were originally used to install these. You don't want to use different
component ids in cases where these OCXs have already been installed with
different Ids. For example this might be what you need:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/896559

Phil W  

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Gallo [9Dots Management]
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 5:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Registering OCXs, Burn, and Typelib issues

Will do - thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
Farrukh Waheed
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 1:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Registering OCXs, Burn, and Typelib issues

try adding -scom..

On 28 July 2016 at 02:32, Charles Gallo [9Dots Management] <
CGallo at ixdots.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> OK, my installer has some issues on some boxes, the box doesn't have 
> certain OLD OCXs
>
> These are basically the old Microsoft common control libraries for
VB6/VBA.
>
> I've run heat on them, with the -svb6 switch, but the fragments are 
> still getting SOME typlibs that have no parent.  Any clue what I'm doing
wrong?
> The whole project is a VBA/XLAM add in for excel
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