Well, I was talking about the Id values not the Guid values. They need to be unique as well, no? Or only within their directory?
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 6:49 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions You mean like the Directory/@ComponentGuidGenerationSeed? -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 14:41 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions I played around with it a bit, and in my particular case I'm not sure it will work due to collisions with directory, component, and filename Id values. My installer installs two different web applications with subdirectories having the same name, etc. I would have to seed it with some kind of prefix to make the uniqueness work out. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 5:22 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions For Components with one file each... maybe. It's the closest we've come. Still experimental (one reason it isn't documented well). -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 13:41 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions So, does heat -ag not solve the component rules problem? -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 4:09 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions Uhh, heat already supports that with the -ag switch. -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 13:00 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions 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. 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