Re: [WiX-users] How to allow autogenerated ComponentGroup to autogenerate Guids

2014-07-10 Thread eric
Thanks, neslekkim! I am using commandline, and the "DirectoryRefId" was what I was missing. Once I fed that into heat (with -dr MyInstallDir), it started working. neslekkim wrote > commandline or msbuild? > > On commandline you can add -gg to generate guid's when heat is run, or -ag > to use "

Re: [WiX-users] How to allow autogenerated ComponentGroup to autogenerate Guids

2014-07-10 Thread neslekkim
commandline or msbuild? On commandline you can add -gg to generate guid's when heat is run, or -ag to use "*" instead. With the msbuild task I use this: GenerateGuidsNow="true" to generate them. I use msbuild, and have heat setup like this: which gives me a file like this: http://schemas.micr

[WiX-users] How to allow autogenerated ComponentGroup to autogenerate Guids

2014-07-10 Thread eric
I used heat.exe to generate a .wxs file that lists all the files that I want to install. I told heat to put them in a ComponentGroup so I could reference them from another (hand-generated) .wxs file. However, the autogenerated file specifications look like this: Since the sou