[wix-users] harvesting COM registration data

Fri Nov 30 08:06:00 PST 2018

I processed the EXE with InstallShield / dark  and sent you the wxs back

My memory of COM is fading and wouldn't dare answering detailed questions.  I just remember enough to know how to make it work and to know that I prefer not to anymore.

Every now and then every COM harvester will fail.  In those situations I get  product installed on a clean VM and use a registry snapshot/diff utility to capture  the before/after of a COM registration.   Every now and then there will be one or two more registry values  that the harvester missed.  Author that into the WXS and  rebuild,  revert the VM and retest.    Eventually it'll work perfectly.
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But where do these deviations come from (Class, AppId, Progid missing)?
@Christopher: I have sent you an e-mail.

Best regards

Matthias Reuss

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If this is a one time need for you and you just want an easy button, email me the EXE and I'll  author a fragement for you.

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Just tried: I can extract a TLB from the EXE. Heat can harvest the interfaces from the TLB, but the Class, AppId, and ProgId are missing.

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If it's an EXE you are building, then odds are you have the TLB source, in which case heat can harvest from it, right?

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Really?   For some reason I thought I had used it for this purpose at another company around 8 years ago.

InstallShield can do this.  I  must have created a basic msi project,  added the EXE, built the MSI and then use InstallShield to edit the MSI and export the registry data and from there I probably used heat to harvest the reg file and then massaged it into my project.

InstallShield can be installed as a demo on a VM for what it's worth.

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heat.exe does not support extracting COM registration for executables.

There is a commercial solution from FireGiant in the "WiX Expansion Pack" that supports harvesting COM registration from executables (and more): https://www.firegiant.com/products/wix-expansion-pack/#heatwave-harvesting (documentation here: https://www.firegiant.com/wix/wep-documentation/harvesting/)
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The WiX Expansion Pack from FireGiant includes functionality to make you more productive that is not available as part of open-source WiX.

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Subject: [wix-users] harvesting COM registration data

Hello,

does heat extract COM registration data from "Local Servers" (i.e. .exe COM servers)?

I could successfully retrieve this information from some COM dlls, and also from some COM Interop assemblies, but when harvesting an .exe which is supposed to self-register using the -regserver switch, heat does not output COM registration data.

Am I missing something, or is this a missing feature (I am using wix 3.11.1)?

Is there a recommended workaround?

Best regards

Matthias Reuss

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