On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:07:12 -0800, Steve Bush wrote:
Steve,
> Does anyone know of an easy way in WIX to automatically create a
> GUID on install? I want to create a GUID that represents the user
> and place it in the registry.
Just write a five-minute custom action in C or your language of cho
Not sure if this will work for you but we've created GUIDs the following way
in the past.
I'm not sure we have example of what you're doing so maybe it'll work &
maybe it won't.
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As the is a preprocessor statement surely it must resolve at
compile time, also that guid pattern appears to b
I assume you can't use:
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Or maybe set this as the content of a property then use that property.
Seems annoying to have to reinvent the wheel when WIX clearly has the
code to do it.
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I'm new to wix and msi but it looks like you'll need to use a custom action,
you could call into a dll or write a
vbscript (it looks like using scripts in custom actions may be frowned
upon), anyway you can set a property to a new
guid and then reference that, the simplest example would be with a
Sent: 18 February 2008 16:07
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Create New Guid in Installer
Does anyone know of an easy way in WIX to automatically create a GUID on
install? I want to create a GUID that represents the user and place it in the
I'm new to wix and msi but it looks like you'll need to use a custom action,
you could call into a dll or write a
vbscript (it looks like using scripts in custom actions may be frowned upon),
anyway you can set a property to a new
guid and then reference that, the simplest example would be with
Does anyone know of an easy way in WIX to automatically create a GUID on
install? I want to create a GUID that represents the user and place it in the
registry. Here's an example:
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