Re: [WiX-users] Are "*" Component Guids trustworthy (for IIS subdirectory)?

2013-01-02 Thread JohnB
Rob Mensching-7 wrote > The ComponentGuidGenerationSeed essentially allows you to treat > the Directory (and it's parents) as a well known folder. You are > responsbile for ensuring that the seed changes when the Directory's path > changes. Otherwise, you can start having your Component GUIDs overl

[WiX-users] Heat.exe, "suppress COM" usage (-scom)

2013-01-08 Thread JohnB
I'm harvesting a directory/file structure. I do not want COM visible files to be COM registered - this is for a server-side product that doesn't use registry-based COM. Some of the assemblies are COM visible, so heat harvests registry information. I tried adding the "suppress COM" (-scom) option

Re: [WiX-users] Heat.exe, "suppress COM" usage (-scom)

2013-01-08 Thread JohnB
Aha, thanks to Bill, Jacob, and Germano for the suggestions. "-scom -sreg" seems to do the trick. Regarding the original question, what is -scom useful for? Are there situations where Class and ProgID elements are not desirable? I'm wondering if the usage statement for that flag should be clari

[WiX-users] Wix's IIS extension. How to set "Limit Interval (minutes)" on an App Pool

2013-01-17 Thread JohnB
In IIS 7, an App Pool has a settings called "Limit Interval (minutes)" (aka "resetInterval"). I can't seem to find a way to set this in Wix. I've tried the WebAppPool element's RefreshCpu, RecycleMinutes, and several other attributes with no luck. Is there a way? Here's a screen shot of what I

Re: [WiX-users] variables in wsx files?

2013-03-18 Thread JohnB
StevenOgilvie wrote > As in previous email WIX has built in vars... > \dev\myapp\bin\$(var.Configuration)\myapp.exe > > here is more info: > http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/votive_project_references.htm For posterity, do I understand correctly that if you leave out the project name from th