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Wise 7.0 How to create a MSI package to register some DLLs & OCXs ???

Zones: WISE, Deployment Software for Development, MSI

Tags: wise, msi, how, create, package

Hi Experts,

I'm totally newbie for the Wise Installation Situdio 7.0 and I need to create MSI package that can register some DLLs and OCXs to a Windows XP operating system.

Please let me know step by step guide for this !

Many thanks !

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Zone: Programming

Question Asked By: NetMaxtor

Solution Provided By: kcehtrak

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Comment by vadimrapp1

Since this solution is one of the most-frequently seen in EE, I'd like to put some corrections.

1. setup capture is unnecessary. If the user is building new installation, setup capture has nothing to do here, its purpose is to repackage an existing installation.

2. "manually copy the dll's & ocx to the location they are supposed to be installed to on that machine" is unnecessary. Location of the file is irrelevant. And of course, the file on the developer's machine does not have to be in the same location as on the target one, not to mention that the user can change the default installation folder during the installation.

3. Merge module would be very good idea only if this set of dll's is going to be reused in many installations. If not, then there's no point in creating it.

The proper way to build an installation package with com objects is this:

1. in Wise, under Options/Advertising, uncheck "automatically add self-registration". (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307367 for the reasons)

2. have the dll (or ocx) in question registered on the machine with regsvr32.exe

3. add the dll to the installation.

If (2) is not desirable, there are 2 ways: build the installation on another machine, or, better, copy the file over to another machine, and run there utility WiseComCapture.exe that can be found in the Wise program folder. The utility will create a .reg file. Move that file back to the machine with Wise, and import.
For more details, open Help in Wise Editor and search for WiseComCapture - it will return several articles with many more useful details.

If the file is already in the installation, and it was re-registered, go to Setup Editor, tab Components, find the component with the dll, and select "rescan advertising information" from context menu. You can also rescan it for the whole project.

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