Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing

2013-03-22 Thread Christopher Painter
al discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing My thinking: If the application is removed, the archived event log entries aren't interesting any longer. On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Christopher Painter wrote: My thought here is that ther

Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing

2013-03-22 Thread Christopher Painter
, March 22, 2013 11:23 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net, chr...@iswix.com Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Event source sharing Hi Rob, Do you have any advice on my question per se, then? Should the developers just use a separate source for each of these very similar applications? Troubleshooters

Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing

2013-03-22 Thread Rob Mensching
March 22, 2013 10:51 AM > To: "Christopher Painter" , "General discussion for > Windows Installer XML toolset." > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing > > Please don't mark things permanent that are part of your application. Have > your app

Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing

2013-03-22 Thread Christopher Painter
nario? From: "Rob Mensching" Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 10:51 AM To: "Christopher Painter" , "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing Please don't mark things permanent

Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing

2013-03-22 Thread Rob Mensching
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Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing

2013-03-22 Thread Keith.Douglas
al Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: March-22-13 11:49 AM To: Christopher Painter; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing Please don't mark things permanent that are part of your application. Have y

Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing

2013-03-22 Thread Rob Mensching
Please don't mark things permanent that are part of your application. Have your application clean up correctly. The only time you should think about leaving stuff is for user generated data (including user settings). On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Christopher Painter wrote: > > If you look at

Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing

2013-03-22 Thread Christopher Painter
If you look at the built MSI, you'll see EventSource is just some syntactic sugar to express simple registry keys/values.Create a component in a fragment / wix library and mark it as shared. Then do a ComponentRef in your various installers and they will all "share" that component. Last