Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components

2008-11-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Wed 05/11/2008 22:42 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components And be aware, we are still investigating to see if the implementation has any bad side effects (like your Component GUIDs randomly changing)... -Original M

Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components

2008-11-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components Thanks Rob, that would do it. If anyone else is interested you can do something like this: Neil -Original Message- From: Rob

Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components

2008-11-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components Directory/@ComponentGuidGenerationSeed -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 13:37 To: General discussion for Windows Installer

Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components

2008-11-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Directory/@ComponentGuidGenerationSeed -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 13:37 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components I was wondering if there was

Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components

2008-11-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Neil -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 November 2008 06:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components Auto-generated Component GUIDs are still a bit experimental although they are

Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components

2008-11-05 Thread Sébastien Mouren
2008/11/4 Brownfield, Cory M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm using WiX version 3.0.4617.0. > > A component can have its GUID defined like this : Guid="*" if under a > standard directory. Here's a portion of the error message returned when > trying to install to a nonstandard location: > > "Since this

Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components

2008-11-04 Thread Rob Mensching
Auto-generated Component GUIDs are still a bit experimental although they are growing on me. The limitations are in place because that is how the WiX toolset ensures that the GUID is stable and unique. -Original Message- From: Brownfield, Cory M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [WiX-users] Autogen GUIDs for components

2008-11-04 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Cory, This might not be the answer you are looking for, but I can point into the code were you can take a look at what is going on. http://wix.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wix/wix/src/wix/Binder.cs?revision=1.70&view=markup Line 2696 starts the method. Line 2807 starts the if statement. I beli