Re: [WiX-users] Preprocessor and Component Guids

2009-08-31 Thread Blair
aillet, Ed [mailto:email...@unum.com] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 9:59 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Preprocessor and Component Guids Here's the real use case. I need to create what I'll call an 'Infrastructure Package', specifically for a web serv

Re: [WiX-users] Preprocessor and Component Guids

2009-08-31 Thread Blair
") and use them as your keypaths. If they are all "buried" in the same key it won't look so "heavy" in RegEdit. -Original Message- From: Maillet, Ed [mailto:email...@unum.com] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:53 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Preprocessor and Component Guids

2009-08-31 Thread Maillet, Ed
Message: 7 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:25:46 + From: Svet Bonev Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Preprocessor and Component Guids No, there is no built-in functionality to accomplish that. But the bigger question is why you want to create such components. Ideally, you would have file KeyPaths. Ran

Re: [WiX-users] Preprocessor and Component Guids

2009-08-31 Thread Svet Bonev
about the use case would help us identify a solution. -Original Message- From: Maillet, Ed [mailto:email...@unum.com] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:53 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Preprocessor and Component Guids Hey all, I hope I'm missing some

[WiX-users] Preprocessor and Component Guids

2009-08-31 Thread Maillet, Ed
Hey all, I hope I'm missing something obvious. Is there a way for the preprocessor to generate a guid value for a variable? (without making my own custom extension). Something like I'm trying to create multiple conditional components like: