Hi Dan, Your wish is my command. :) I updated Paraffin to keep any custom added namespaces: http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2012/01/19/paraffin-3-6-now-keeping-custom-added-namespaces.aspx
Thanks for the great feature request and using Paraffin! John Wintellect http://www.wintellect.com +1-877-968-5528 On Jan 11, 2012, at 4:24 AM, Dan Gough wrote: Ok, I have Paraffin working nicely now. I initially used Heat.exe with the -suid option so that my IDs have friendly names, then modified the resulting wxs into Paraffin format. When I run Paraffin however, the resulting .PARAFFIN file only contains the default namespace declaration, and not the one I added to the intial wxs file for the util extension: <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"; xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension";> John, can you add a feature request to retain the original attributes on the root element when creating the Paraffin file? I may have a go myself since I have the source, but my C# is very rusty and haven't used LINQ before! Anybody come across this problem and have a solution already? Cheers, Dan On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Dan Gough <goug...@gmail.com<mailto:goug...@gmail.com>> wrote: Just tried again and the XmlFile tags are no longer being removed, must have made a mistake somewhere! Also confirmed that test values for registry and service entries are left untouched also. Plodding on, wish me luck! Cheers, Dan On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Dan Gough <goug...@gmail.com<mailto:goug...@gmail.com>> wrote: Ok, I've got an initial fragment created and sussed out how to perform an update. However, some of my components have <XmlFile> entries, and these get dropped when updating. I tried putting these entries into .paraffinmold files, but then if I want it associated with the original component, I end up getting duplicate component entries which then produces errors at compile time. I will eventually be adding registry and service information to some of these components and am thinking Paraffin might strip these out also when updating, can anybody confirm? I would appreciate any advice at this point on the best way forward. Thanks, Dan On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:25 AM, John Robbins <j...@wintellect.com<mailto:j...@wintellect.com>> wrote: Thanks all for the kind words about Paraffin! *blush* If you're just getting started with Paraffin make sure to read the Zen of Paraffin to help you get started. (http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2010/08/31/zen-of-paraffin.aspx) As always, if anyone has any bugs or feature requests, please let me know and I'll get on them. John Wintellect http://www.wintellect.com<http://www.wintellect.com/> +1-877-968-5528<tel:%2B1-877-968-5528> On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Bourne, Kevin wrote: > Using it here too, with great success. Easy to use with our TFS build server. > Also love the fact that we have the source code. > > > > Kevin Bourne | Software Developer Lead | Chase Paymentech > ... > kevin.bou...@chasepaymentech.com<mailto:kevin.bou...@chasepaymentech.com> > > JPMorgan Chase & Co. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Hull > [mailto:justin.h...@assetpoint.com<mailto:justin.h...@assetpoint.com>] > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:31 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Anybody using Paraffin? > > In short I have used it to good success. It took a little bit to work > through the options, but in the end I got a nice fragment file I could > include in a dynamic build. After the fact I learned that MISInstaller > prefers each file have its own component, I used paraffin to group by > directory. When we stich over to a major release I will adjust my scripts to > conform to default behavior. > I also like that you can dig into the source code. 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