Re: [WiX-users] CreateFolder/RemoveFolder with Empty Component Guid

Dominik Guder wrote: > My very first question is: Is it valid to use an empty Component/@Guid for > CreateFolder (and RemoveFolder as I use this too) > No. If you omit the component guid, MSI "forgets" about the component and will never uninstall it. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -

Re: [WiX-users] CreateFolder/RemoveFolder with Empty Component Guid

Hey Dominik, The Component/@Guid="*" is the valid way to auto generate GUIDs. There is another switch -gg that generates GUIDs for you. What issue are using seeing using the "*"? Hi Brian, sorry for mixing Component/@Guid and Heat issue in my first message yes but not if only a Element is

Re: [WiX-users] CreateFolder/RemoveFolder with Empty Component Guid

Hey Dominik, The Component/@Guid="*" is the valid way to auto generate GUIDs. There is another switch -gg that generates GUIDs for you. What issue are using seeing using the "*"? Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at

[WiX-users] CreateFolder/RemoveFolder with Empty Component Guid

Hi folks, I'm using the new heat dir crawler with following options: heat.exe dir -ag -ke ... this will add Guid="*" for empty directories. (see below) But this is not valid for autogenerated Guids. My solution is currently to remove the asterisk and use an empty GUID.