Windows Installer Editor Reference
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Assembling an Installation
Using WiseComCapture.exe
before you can scan a file’s self-registration information and add it to an installation, the
file must be registered on your computer. If you prefer not to register files on your
computer, you can run the scan routine as a stand-alone utility on a different computer.
This utility, WiseComCapture.exe, is in the Windows Installer Editor installation
directory. It extracts the registration information to a .REG file, from which you can
import registry keys into the installation.
To scan a file’s self-registration information and add it to an
installation
1. Copy or install the files to self-register onto a computer other than your build
computer.
2. Copy WiseComCapture.exe to a location you can access from the other computer.
3. Run WiseComCapture.exe from the command line, using the following syntax:
WiseComCapture.exe /r /u Input_COM_Full_pathname Output_REG_pathname
where:
/r self-registers the files before extracting the registry information.
/u self-unregisters the files after the extraction is finished.
Input_COM_Full_pathname is the path to the file or files that should be self-
registered.
Output_REG_pathname is the path and file name of the .REG file to which the
registry information will be extracted. This file must be accessible to anyone
who will be working on the installation.
The files are registered and the registry information is extracted to the .REG file you
specified.
4. On the build computer, do one of the following to import the .REG file:
On the Registry page, import the .REG file you created. This method imports
the information once but does not update it if the file’s registration information
changes.
See
Importing and Exporting Registry Entries
on page 144.
In Setup Editor > Components tab, display the Component Details dialog box
for the component containing the file. In Import .REG File, specify the .REG
file you created. Mark Extract advertising information from registry file.
See
Adding and Editing a Component
on page 374.
If you rerun WiseComCapture.exe whenever the file’s registration information
changes, its registry information will be imported from the .REG file.
See also:
How Self-Registration Information is Captured
on page 133
