Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 37, Issue 19

2009-06-04 Thread Jason Zhang
format=flowed > > I suggest reading: > http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2003/10/18/Component-Rules-101 > > You'll find that the rules are very strict but not enforced and you > won't notice until you try to patch or upgrade. > > Jason Zhang wrote: > > As a beginn

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Property calculation (Rob Mensching)

2009-06-04 Thread Jason Zhang
dows Installer XML toolset. > > Message-ID: <4a27eea5.6010...@wixtoolset.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed > > In that case you should read: > http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/05/20/136530.aspx > > Jason Zhang wrote: >

[WiX-users] component and guid

2009-06-03 Thread Jason Zhang
As a beginner, although I already read through the wix tutorial, still have some questions on guid attribute on component element: 1. same guid in different product: if I accidentally copied a guid from a component in product A to another component in product B. What happened if I install product

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Property calculation

2009-06-03 Thread Jason Zhang
Thanks. That really help! I created an vbscript to handle this case. --Jason -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:01:55 -0700 From: Rob Mensching Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix Property calculation To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Mes

[WiX-users] Wix Property calculation

2009-06-02 Thread Jason Zhang
Hi, I need set a wix property based on another property with basic math calculation, such as Mocked code: ... Can I do this in wix ? If yes, what's the syntax? If no, any better suggestion ? Basically I will get BASE_PORT property from user input, and I want to automatically created the MY_P