Are there any guidelines for how best to create both a 32 and a 64 bit 
installer from a single WiX source file? I can use variable substitution to set 
the Platform attribute and pick up the right versions of the various executable 
files, but I'm puzzled about how to manage Component GUIDs. Do they need to be 
different for the 32 & 64 bit installers, and if so does WiX/Votive provide me 
any tools which can be used to manage this difference? It is possible that both 
the 32 and 64 bit versions will need to be installed at once, if that matters.

A separate but perhaps related question is how to manage a new product version 
which can be installed side-by-side with the current version. My understanding 
is that I need to allocate new Component GUIDs, but I'd rather not spend hours 
with GUIDGEN copy & pasting hundreds of new entries! I guess I could write a 
utility to process a WiX source file and replace every GUID in it, but is there 
a better way?

Apologies if these questions have been answered before: I thought they might be 
common problems, but I've done quite a bit of searching and failed to find 
answers.

-- 
Thank you for any help,
John


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