If you are using (or ever plan on using, or even are ever forced to use) any win32 or .net assembly installations (including using the C/C++ runtime MSMs or using the GAC) you are forced to place RemoveExistingProducts close to InstallFinalize (so called "late") instead of one of the two "early" placements in the sequence. That will cause you problems with your scheme.
There are ways to make component guids more stable, even when using heat. One is to insert a xslt transform between heat and candle that changes all components containing a File element to have a guid of "*". The "-ag" command parameter of heat should do this without inserting any transforms into your build and would be the recommended approach. I would add "-ag" to your heat command-line. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Hope [mailto:jon.h...@pinewood.co.uk] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 2:31 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Automating Heat Hi Brian, Due to the problem with the -cg my setup currently has 1 file per component. The solution that I am building contains 21 projects. To automate this I have initially created 21 fragment files which are referenced from one 'main' .wxs file. I have then added a pre-build event to each of the projects to delete the 'project' .wxs file after the get, and call Heat to generate a new one. This ensures that any files added or removed within each project is included in the setup project. As the component GUID's are re-generated when Heat is called I am having to deploy Major releases only. The only stable GUID I have at the moment is the Product and Upgrade GUIDs. I don't fancy having to manually replace the component GUIDs for each project as there are between 200 and 700 components in each, so I have fully ruled out patching for the time being. Would you consider that the above is a viable solution for my WiX setup project? I'd hate to be running in the wrong direction :-) Kind Regards, Jon -----Original Message----- From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 September 2009 16:12 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Automating Heat Hey Jon, That is good to hear! I will mention to watch out with the time to do costing for components with that many files. I imagine that a full install of the MSI is taking over 15 minutes if you have more that 3000 files. Additionaly, the only way you will be able to handle patching is to do some large customizations in heat.exe. Without these I would recommend staying with the Major Upgrade store <frown/> I know that isn't want you wanted to hear. I am working on some stuff to help this issue out. It is turning it quite the "rats nest" <grin/> I am particularly interested in hearing your feedback as you go through this process. Heat 4.0 (or v2.0 I guess) is on the drawing boards. Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove <-- NEW On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Jon Hope <jon.h...@pinewood.co.uk> wrote: > Thanks for your help Brian. > > I have raised this on as a bug on sourceforge. I can get by without the > -cg switch which means I now have an automated build process which > incorporates Heat to generate the fragment, rather than our developers > having to manually update the fragments (we have 1000's of files). > > Kind Regards, > > Jon > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com] > Sent: 10 September 2009 18:23 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Automating Heat > > Hey Jon, > > If you could add a bug to sourceforge.net for this issue and how to repro > it > that would be great. The warning message was specific to the -cg switch. > This warning is being removed in WiX 3.5. > > Thanks, > > Brian Rogers > "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me > http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove <-- NEW > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Jon Hope <jon.h...@pinewood.co.uk> wrote: > > > Hi Brian, > > > > Thanks for your reply. It appears that the duplication is only happening > > when using the -cg switch. I've tried all other switches from my > original > > email and all seem fine. Strangely, I also only receive the warning > > regarding having too many components per feature when using the -cg > switch. > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Jon > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com] > > Sent: 10 September 2009 16:44 > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Automating Heat > > > > Hey Jon, > > > > This should definately not be happening. Does this happen if you do just > a > > -pog:Binaries or -pog:Sources switch. It could be a bug with that > > particular > > switch. Have you tried removing the -cg switch as well? Just giving you > > some > > scenarios to run so we can track down what is going on. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian Rogers > > "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me > > http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove <-- NEW > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Jon Hope <jon.h...@pinewood.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > > Afternoon all, > > > > > > I am currently implementing WiX into our daily builds and am using > > Heat.exe > > > to generate a WiX fragment file at Pre-build by harvesting a .csproj. > > Any > > > releases will be Major releases, and the previous software is fully > > removed, > > > so this should not break any component rules. > > > > > > The problem I am having is that Heat.exe appears to be generating the > > > ComponentGroups twice, once at the top of the .wxs, and once at the > > bottom. > > > This then gives a build error: > > > > > > "Duplicate symbol 'WixComponentGroup:ASP.Content' found" > > > > > > If I manually remove the second component group, the build is > successful > > > and the .msi package is created. > > > > > > Can anyone please shed any light as to why this is happening? > > > > > > The command I am using to generate the fragment is as follows: > > > > > > "C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3.5\bin\heat.exe" project > > > "$(ProjectDir)\..\..\WEB\ASP.csproj" -ag -cg ProductASP -pog:Content > > > -template:fragment -g1 -ke -out "$(ProjectDir)ASPFragment.wxs" > > > > > > This is creating 2 component groups with the same Id <ComponentGroup > > > Id="ASP.Content"> > > > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > > > Jon > > > > > > > > > > > > ############################################################################ ######### > > > > > > Disclaimer > > > > > > Nothing in this E-mail is to be interpreted as agreement on behalf > > > of Pinewood Technologies Plc to enter into any legally binding > > > agreement unless the recipient has received confirmation in writing > > > from a director of the business that the sender is so authorised. > > > > > > If you have received this E-mail in error please forward it to > > > email-retu...@pinewood.co.uk, destroy and delete it and do > > > not rely upon it in any way. > > > > > > Publication and/or distribution of it is strictly prohibited and may be > > > unlawful. > > > > > > > > > ############################################################################ ######### > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > > > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > > 30-Day > > > trial. 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