Depends on your servicing strategy. Keeping the same ProductCode for two different languages can compound small update component rule upgrade violations if packages from two different languages were ever to be applied to the same computer, and considering that you can change a computer's language somewhat easily (depending on the version/edition) that is a very real scenario. In addition, if your language implementation is MUI-based or MUI-like in any way (such that the per-language files could conceivably be laid down simultaneously [side-by-side]) then by having different ProductCodes you could install the same version "on top of" another language. Even if you can't have multiple languages simultaneously installed, for the cost of a single ICE warning you can have your upgrade table remove the previous language when you "update" it with a new one of the same version.
Besides, transforms can legally change the ProductCode, so that's not a reason to use different product codes for the different languages. And when you upgrade, all the previous languages will be removed (I'm assuming you are keeping the UpgradeCode the same for all languages and all versions) so you won't have any cross-version installation issues (as long as you also prevent downgrades). You are likely to have fewer headaches if you follow that advice and have differing ProductCodes. -----Original Message----- From: Pratapa Reddy Sanaga [mailto:pratap.san...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:28 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Localization - ProductCode property Hi, I was going through an example for localization and came across this MSDN page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372369. It says that we must change the productCode for every localized package. Is this a necessary condition or just a good practice? I'm planning to create MSIs for different languages, create transforms with english as base package, embed these transforms into the base package and have a bootstrapper that would apply the right transform and install the package. So, for this scenario, do I need to create different ProductCodes for different language MSIs? If I have the same product code for all the language MSIs and tomorrow if I find a localization bug in one language, will there be any implications in this servicing process because of the same productCode used in the first place? Thanks, Pratap. -- Vote for loksatta = vote for a better future ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
