Creating Custom Actions for VBP 8

[HippyCraig]

In previous version I have a custom action that I pass a list of labels to and a custom VB dialag box appears that displays that list in a drop down, once selected it updates a macro in the calling script and continues. This works fine in Version 7, I just installed Version 8 on a new workstation and I want to upgrade that action to work with the newer version of Visual Build. Now that I got the background out, I will get to my questions:

First I want to write my action using VS2010 and Framwork 4.0 is this supported?

Second, since I have to refrence VisBuildSvr, I want to create two action one to support 32 bit and one for 64 bit. Do I need to create two seperate solutions one for each since some build machines are 32 bit only. Would I need the appropreate version of VBP installed in order to build each type?

Any suggestions would be great!

[kinook]

My testing suggests you need to target .NET 2.0 (will have to investigate further to see if it's possible to support 4.0).

If you use Any CPU for the platform, the compiled .NET action can be registered and used in 32- or 64-bit Visual Build, but I suspect that actions with a user interface will not work properly in the 64-bit edition.

[HippyCraig]

Thanks, I will give it a try an let you know

[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