Creating Custom Actions for VBP 8

[HippyCraig]

I am working on creating a new version, when attempting to run a BLD file that registers the DLL I get the following error from within VB8

4/4/2012 1:51:20 PM: Building project step 2 - Register DLL...
RegAsm : error RA0000 : An error occurred while writing the registration information to the registry. Administrator permissions are needed to use the selected options. Use an administrator command prompt to complete these tasks.

Process completed with exit code 100
4/4/2012 1:51:20 PM: Step '2 - Register DLL' failed
4/4/2012 1:51:20 PM: Build ended (elapsed = 00:00:00).

[HippyCraig]

I fogot to add the acutal command line thats run, it appears to defualt to the highest framword version installed on the box. The assembly is trageting the 2.0 framwork

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\rega sm.exe C:\TFS\SCM\Dev\ACE.VisualBuild.Solution-DEV1\ACE.VisualBuild.SelectVersion\bin\Release\ACE .VisualBuild.SelectVersion.dll /nologo /s /codebase

[kinook]

regasm does require elevated privileges to register a COM assembly.
http://kinook.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=2258

The COM Register action use the highest installed framework version that is found for locating regasm.exe. You can override the regasm.exe on the Register tab.
http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Ma...omregister.htm

[HippyCraig]

Great, thanks for the quick turn around!

[HippyCraig]

I found as I created a new action and compared the scripts with my previos version there appears to be a new property that I cant find information on. If I open up a build file I see the following property added to my custom action.

<buildfailsteps type='11'>0</buildfailsteps>

If I try to add exisitng actions to the same script the added actions also have this value added but the exisiting actions do not get modified when saving to have this new propery.

Can you tell me more about this and what the values represent?

[kinook]

That property determines whether failure steps are built if an occurs when building that step (corresponds with the 'Build failure steps' option on the More tab of the step properties dialog).

You may need to re-download and install the latest build -- there was a bug in the initial release that caused checking, then unchecking of this option to not get persisted properly in the .bld file.

[HippyCraig]

I just downloaded the latest build and I still see that behavoir, it only adds it to new items added to the script but the exisitng actions do not get updated. I am viewing the BLD file in Notepad++, just so you know were I am seeing this change from.

Is there any details about this setting? What properties in the GUI affect this value, I tried changing some values in the GUI and it it disappears if I try and change anything from the default.


Visual Build Professional 8.0
Windows Version: 6.1.7601.1.0
Install path: C:\Program Files (x86)\VisBuildPro8
HideConsole.exe version 1.0.0.0
SftPrintPreview_IX86_U_20.dll version 2.04
VisBuildCmd.exe version 8.0.0.2
VisBuildPro.exe version 8.0.0.2
VisBuildAct.dll version 8.0.0.3
VisBuildCore.dll version 8.0.0.3
VisBuildDotNET.dll version 8.0.0.1
VisBuildExt.dll version 8.0.0.3
VisBuildMisc.dll version 8.0.0.3
VisBuildMS.dll version 8.0.0.3
VisBuildMS2.dll version 8.0.0.2
VisBuildNet.dll version 8.0.0.3
VisBuildSvr.dll version 8.0.0.4
VisBuildSvr.Interop.dll version 1.0.0.0
VisBuildVCS.dll version 8.0.0.3