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• Re: Cant read a IIS registry key from an MSI launch condition onto a Windows Server 2008

  Check this thread for more info: http://forums.asp.net/t/1432485.aspx Basically MS f****d up by not allowing 32-bit apps to read the 64-bit registry and my guess is they fixed this in W7 somehow. Update: Yup - this has been fixed in 2008R2 and W7 by removing registry reflection. I would love to see some more material on the implications of this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384235%28VS.85%29.aspx Registry Reflection [The information in this topic applies to Windows Server 2008, Windows

  Posted to VS Web Deployment Projects (Forum) by permb on 7/13/2009

• Re: How to detect IIS6 metabase option in launch condition on Vista and Server 2008?

  Yes I guess I could to that but it would make the project more complex since the target platform is a project setting and not an output setting - essentially forcing me to have two projects (32 and 64-bit) to have to sync (unless there is a secret command line version of the .vdproj engine that allows target platform as a command line parameter). That MS chose to make it impossible to read the 64-bit registry from a 32-bit process is beyond me. I think I'll continue to solve this by large letters

  Posted to VS Web Deployment Projects (Forum) by permb on 6/12/2009

• Re: How to detect IIS6 metabase option in launch condition on Vista and Server 2008?

  I did some investigation on a Vista64 machine and since setup.exe is 32-bit this cannot be made to work... The Components key is in the 64-bit version of HKLM\Software and as far as I can tell there is no way to read that data without low-level registry calls. The Launch condition available in Visual Studio would be impossible to write so that it can handle both 32 and 64-bit OS's. See the comment on the following article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724072(VS.85).aspx excerpt:

  Posted to VS Web Deployment Projects (Forum) by permb on 6/11/2009

• How to detect IIS6 metabase option in launch condition on Vista and Server 2008?

  The web deployment projects developed in VS2008 seem to require some of the IIS6 compatibility options to be installed, e.g. the IIS6 metabase compatibility. Since the error message is less than clear, I was wondering if anyone knows how to detect this items in a launch condition. And no, switching to WiX or InstallShield (yuck) is not an option although the lack of progress in the VS deployment projects is forcing me that way I guess... Thx, Per

  Posted to VS Web Deployment Projects (Forum) by permb on 6/8/2009