Exactly. Additionally, you can reorganize the contents of your ComponentGroups pretty much at will. Reorganizing the contents of a Component has serious repercussions (because it's an MSI concept).
-----Original Message----- From: Kelly Leahy [mailto:kelly.le...@milliman.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:01 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer. ComponentGroup is a wix concept, not an MSI one. It's just for the organization of your wix files. You may have as many components per component group as you like, as far as I can tell, we've got many hundreds (I think, never really counted) in one of ours. Kelly Arun Perregatturv <aperregatt...@napcosecurity.com> 01/07/2009 09:55 AM Please respond to "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> To General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> cc Subject Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer. How about ComponentGroup? How many components can I have per ComponentGroup? Because I have 4 componentgroups with each having atleast 40-50 components and each component have just 1 file. Arun Perregattur -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:22 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer. Have you read this: http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2003/10/18/56497.aspx ? That explains why one file per component is recommended. -----Original Message----- From: Maheswaran Selvaraj [mailto:maheswaran.selva...@proteans.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 07:07 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer. Hi Neil, I have read in Wix tutorial that "Installing a component should never influence other components, removing one should never damage another component or leave any orphaned resource on the target machine." Link: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson1.php#1.2 So as I have mentioned earlier removing a component having a .css file leaves another component which have .aspx file orphaned or invalid In this scenario, still advised to put a single file per Component? Thanks Maheswaran Selvaraj -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer. In general the advice is one file per component. I think Rob Mensching has some information on this on his blog. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com <mailto:n...@x2systems.com> ________________________________ From: Maheswaran Selvaraj [mailto:maheswaran.selva...@proteans.com] Sent: Wed 07/01/2009 06:00 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer. I am beginner in Wix installer development, I need Wix installer to be created for my web application. I need to get .wxs file generated for every build. My web application folder structure look like this I Images ii Css iii AspxPages Each folder has some files. When i use Heat.exe to generate WXS file. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi <http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi> "> <Product Id="PUT-GUID-HERE" Language="1033" Manufacturer="PUT-COMPANY-NAME-HERE" Name="PUT-PRODUCT-NAME-HERE" > <Package Compressed="yes" InstallerVersion="200" /> <Feature Id="ProductFeature" Level="1" Title="PUT-FEATURE-TITLE-HERE"> <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="AspxPages" FileSource="D:\AspxPages"> <Component Id="ActiveDirectoryUserHelper.cs" Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE"> <File Id="ActiveDirectoryUserHelper.cs" Name="ActiveDirectoryUserHelper.cs" KeyPath="yes" Source="D:\ActiveDirectoryUserHelper.cs" /> </Component> </DirectoryRef> <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="CSS" FileSource="D:\Css"> <Component Id="ApplicationCSS" Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE"> <File Id="ApplicationCSS" Name="Application.CSS" KeyPath="yes" Source="D:\Application.CSS" /> </Component> </DirectoryRef> </Fragment> </Fragment> </Wix> Multiple components are created with single file as its resources. Is this right way to organize our applications into components ? Should not we put all the files in a single component ? Like <Component id="WebApplication" Guid="Some-Guid"> <File id="AdminPage" name="AdminPage.aspx"/> <File id="CSS" name="Application.CSS"/> <File id="AdminIcon" name="Admin.Ico"/> </Component> Ideally removing one component should not influence on another. In this case removing CSS component and its resources Make ASPX Component invalid. The file which resides in ASPX component have dependency on another CSS or Images Component resource. is there any way to configure dependency list ? what is ideal approach for defining components for Web Application in installer? It would be great if anybody explain on it. Thanks Maheswaran Selvaraj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------- "The information contained in this e-mail transmission is confidential and may be privileged. 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