Hi, Heat doest not generate componentGroups as part. instead all the Componentref included in a Feature. I have one more question
1) Is there any option to exclude specified directories or files when we use Heat ? 2) I have Main .wxs file for my product which have other components to Create Databases, and Create Virtual Directories using WIX Extensions. How do i merge the Generated .wxs file into Main file ? Thanks Maheswaran Selvaraj. Rob Mensching-2 wrote: > > 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? 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