>Can you explain what you mean by "proper GUIDs"?
>I wasn't aware that Votive was generating bad GUIDs.
GUID data type (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368767(VS.85).aspx)
requires GUIDs to be all upper-case:
" Note that utilities such as GUIDGEN can generate GUIDs containing lowercase
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Does Votive do the actual conversion or is it candle.exe?
Neil
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Mixed-case guids
Votive generates Product ID and UpgradeCode GUIDs which, from the Windows
Installer point, are wrong.
That may not be an issue if we assume that nobody will "enhance" msi files
manually or using Windows Installer API a
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Candle upper-cases the guids for you. But many other MSI tools and
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Candle upper-cases the guids for you. But many other MSI tools and APIs
don't, so one could make a pedantic argument that it's better to have
them upper-case in the source code for better copy-pasting.
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> Who knew that a how to topic on generating GUIDs could get
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Mixed-case guids
Candle upper-cases the guids for you. But many other MSI tools and APIs don't,
so one could make a pedantic argument that it's better to have them upper-case
in the source code for better copy-pasting.
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Does Votive do the actual conversion or is it candle.exe?
Neil
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] Mixed-case guids
>Does anyone know why mixed-case guids generate and error from candle if
>you turn on the -pendantic flag? Is it just a coding style or is there a
>problem with them? (It looks like candle forces them uppercase in the
>wixobj file.)
That's because GUID type in
>Does anyone know why mixed-case guids generate and error from candle if
>you turn on the -pendantic flag? Is it just a coding style or is there a
>problem with them? (It looks like candle forces them uppercase in the
>wixobj file.)
That's because GUID type in windows installer
(http://msdn.micr
This is a quote from Heath Stewart when I asked the same question...
> Upper case is required because of the compression translation matrix MSI
> uses internally in some places. Characters have different ordinals which
> yield different results under said matrix.
Hope that helps,
--
Brian Rog
Does anyone know why mixed-case guids generate and error from candle if
you turn on the -pendantic flag? Is it just a coding style or is there a
problem with them? (It looks like candle forces them uppercase in the
wixobj file.)
Setup.wxs(31) : error CNDL0087 : The Upgrade/@Id attribute's value
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