WiX Action Sequence

Question

I was looking for list of actions and their sequence when running a WiX setup. Somehow the official website doesn\'t seem to provide any information.

The basic problem i

Answer 1

For registering DLLs, it is best to avoid self-registration.

We use the HEAT command to generate a WiX fragment which does the registration for us.

Use

heat file myfile.dll -o myfile.wxs

The advantage of this is that the registry entries are installed and removed correctly and there are no problems with whether the file has been installed or not at the time the registration is done.