hello
can someone explain the numeric entry in this "cost" column? (in SelfReg table)
per InstallShield help, it is the cost of registrating the module in bytes.
and my understanding is putting the size of dll file. and i don't think this is correct.
thank you
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cost column in SelfReg table
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hsong3
, Dec 17 2003 20:34
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Stefan Krueger
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Posted 18 December 2003 - 08:32
The byte cost of self registration is hard to tell: how many byte will the registry size increase? Some DLLs however do additional stuff in their self reg funtion so you may want to reserve additional bytes. According to MSI docs the Cost field is even nullable.
You could out the size of the DLL in there just to be on the save side. It shouldn't have much effect, except if you don't have eoungh free disk size. But if there's not as many extra free bytes on the disk as the size of your DLL you're in trouble anyway.
BTW Microsoft strongly suggests that you don't use this self registration method.
You could out the size of the DLL in there just to be on the save side. It shouldn't have much effect, except if you don't have eoungh free disk size. But if there's not as many extra free bytes on the disk as the size of your DLL you're in trouble anyway.
BTW Microsoft strongly suggests that you don't use this self registration method.
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