Re: Context menus aren't available from dialogs on Vista

Bob Archer wrote:
>>> Interestingly, a 64-bit MSI installer *can* use both 64 and 32 -bit
> DLLs
>>> for custom actions (I ran into that when I was verifying that things
> in
>>> MSI-land are indeed as grim as Stefan stated they were).
>> For custom actions, yes. But: if you do that, Orca will complain and
>> throw out many violations in the validation check. And WiX3 will do
> the
>> same and not build the msi at all (unless its forced to not do the
>> validation).
>>
>> Stefan
>
> So, now I'm really confused. Do you need to "load" the 32-bit dlls
> during the install? Don't you only need to copy them to the appropriate
> locations and set the appropriate registry settings in the 32bit hives?

What has that to do with msi validation? The validation process checks
the binaries included in the msi too. That's all it needs to do to find
out that there are 'mixed' binaries in it and throw out validation errors.

Stefan

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