Rats on the Ids. The way heat rolls seems to be a pretty good answer to the problems I've seen.
Thanks for pointing out Directory/@ComponentGuidGenerationSeed. This seems to do the trick for me. --- On Mon, 6/8/09, Brian Rogers <rogers.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Brian Rogers <rogers.br...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Id and Guid Questions > To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com, "General discussion for Windows > Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Monday, June 8, 2009, 3:41 PM > Hey Chris, > > > Is there a way to make it make the autogenerated > flavor be like the way heat does it? > > Short answer is no. The Ids in heat are done using a > seed to keep them unique according to the output. Once moved > into the Compiler/Linker level it would be a bit more tricky > to get it 100% right to auto generate Ids (although not > impossible). > > > > declare a Directory of ProgramFilesFolder with > a DefaultDir of . and put it in the heiraachy > > Are you still following the authoring guidelines on > this? > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367787.aspx > > For the GUID generation you could look at using > Directory/@ComponentGuidGenerationSeed > at the root directory of your merge modules. > > Thanks, > > Brian Rogers > "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me > http://icumove.spaces.live.com > > > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:22 PM, > Christopher Painter <chr...@deploymentengineering.com> > wrote: > > > When I use heat, it generates dir/comp/file ID's such > as > > cmpXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > dirXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > > filXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > > If I omit the File/@Id attribute I get a different > transformation pattern autogenerated. Is there a way to > make it make the autogenerated flavor be like the way heat > does it? > > Also when I try to use autogenerated componentID/Guids in > merge module projects I get an error message saying the file > isn't rooted in ProgramFilesFolder. Eventually it will > be though since we wire all of our modules up to > targetdir\installdir. I found a hackish way around > this error ( declare a Directory of ProgramFilesFolder with > a DefaultDir of . and put it in the heiraachy ) but I was > wondering if there is a better way here. > > > Basically I'm trying to come up with a way of writing > merge modules that have as much autogenerated id's and > guids as possible to minimize the mistake of component rule > violations and such. > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables > unlimited > > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for > externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
