If you schedule your RemoveExistingProducts early, that removes the previous version of the product before installing the new one. Essentially that gives you a clean slate to rev all of your Component GUIDs.
Pretty much all the other options mean you have to be very careful about managing your Component GUIDs. On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Alex Ivanoff <alex.ivan...@shavlik.com>wrote: > I have a few more questions. We have a 32-bit installer today with all > component ids explicitly specified. We are planning to move to 32/64 bit > installer (mutualy exclusive) with the ability to upgrade current > installations (major upgrade). > > 1. Should we update explicit component ids to "*"? > 2. What is going to happen to upgrade code? > 3. Is such scenario even possible? If not, what are our options? > > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 22:09, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> wrote: > > > SHA1 hash of the target path. It took us a long time to come up with it > but > > we finally got it. You can see the code in wix\src\wix\Binder.cs - > > Binder::SetComponentGuids() > > > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Alex Ivanoff <alex.ivan...@shavlik.com > > >wrote: > > > > > > No. "*" component guids are stable, not randomly generated. > > > > > > If they are stable how are they generated and where the actual values > > > are stored? Can you explain this? > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > > > > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > > > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > > > _______________________________________________ > > > WiX-users mailing list > > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com< > http://robmensching.com/>LLC > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
