2. I would suggest that the most reliable solution would be to have a solution that set the component guid to "*". This isn't very well documented but I believe it sets the guid to an MD5 hash of the folder name and component name (see here: http://installing.blogspot.com/2006/09/automatically-generating-componen t.html)
I am working on something like this at the moment, if I get it working I'll post details. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com] Sent: 29 December 2008 20:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions Can you elaborate on which of the component rules #2 presents problem for? I wrote a tool to auto-gen my components from my web structure as well. It puts every file in its own component with a new Guid for the id. Is this approach problematic? Is it different than what Visual Studio Installer does? -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 1:55 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions 1. It would be fantastic if someone wrote the extension that made it easy to author VS packages or wrote a harvester so heat could generate much of it automatically. At the very least, you could open a Feature Request. 2. This is a particular challenge with the Windows Installer due to the Component Rules. If you have a solution for including large number of files that does not violate the Component Rules that'd be a great thing to add to the WiX toolset. 3. Documentation always needs lots of work. <smile/> Are you offering to help improve it? Many people make this suggestion, no one steps up to help. The active volunteers on the WiX toolset are all busy fixing bugs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
