September 27, 2004

MSI and Paco -- NOT yet

Just a quick entry to comment on the Gtk# Runtime installer. Zak brought to my attention that the Gtk# Runtime installer I put out yesterday is checking for the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK when it should be checking for the much lighter, thinner and more common place Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Runtime. He is right, my bad!

So I immediately went to correct that, and then it hit me. The MS .NET Framework Runtime does not include Microsoft gacutil.exe. You see, I have been using it to register the Gtk# library module assemblies into the MS GAC. Some of you suggested I use Microsoft Installer that has built in mechanisms to do GAC registration. I had looked into this and have a few reasons to not want to go that way just yet.

What I am going to do is create a small console app that will invoke the same Fusion API voodoo that MSI is using and register our assemblies that way. So please be patient. There is a method to my madness -- Really!

Posted by martinf at September 27, 2004 06:38 AM
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http://chrison.net/PermaLink,guid,36c4b81a-a0c7-40d6-927d-cf496adc8be4.aspx

Actually, it is already in our current #develop tree.

Posted by: Chris at September 27, 2004 09:57 AM