Brian, The issue of 1600+ components is just a warning, saying it might cause problems for Win9x systems. If the installation will never target Win9x and it is always a per-machine installation, is it safe to ignore this warning?
Thank you. -- Yan -----Original Message----- From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 8:49 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to make use of the output .wxs file of heat.exein WiX3.0? Hey Bonn, Just a friendly reminder. Features are only allowed to have 1600 components according to MSI docs. Heat generates one component per file so I would recommend breaking up your harvesting effort into more than one directory and having more than one output file if you have greater than 1600 files. This might also help you when using the -cg <Group1-n> switch. Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove <-- NEW On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Richard Hollis <richhol...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you need to use a component group: > > heat ... -cg WebSiteFiles .... > > This wraps all your components up into a single component grouping that you > can then reference easily in your feature: > > <Feature ...> > <ComponentGroupRef Id="WebSiteFiles" /> > </Feature> > > Richard > > 2009/8/6 bonn deng <bonnd...@gmail.com> > > > Hi all, I am now using heat.exe to generate the .wxs file of one > > directory with the command: > > heat.exe dir "." -gg -nologo -sfrag -out test.wxs -template:product > > , where the current directory contains thousands of files (because it's > > the root dir of a web application). > > Then I want to include all the files listed in the test.wxs into > another > > .wxs file, but the question is: there're so many components and the > > test.wxs > > file doesn't list all the components in the Feature Element, in this case > > it > > would be impossible for me to do it manually, What can I do? Please help, > > thank you so much in advance! > > Best wishes, > > Bonn > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and > focus > > on > > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
