There is some more information here http://installing.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/automatically-generating-component.html
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Asbjørn Mikkelsen [mailto:asbj...@neslekkim.net] Sent: 24 August 2014 09:38 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How does WiX auto-generate GUIDs? Read the last paragraph here: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/general/generate_guids.html On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently I'm using explicit GUIDs for all my components (except > harvested ones). It would make my code much simpler if I used Id="*" > and let WiX auto-generate them. The documentation says the generated > GUIDs are "stable", but I feel like I would trust them better if I > understood how they are generated under the hood :) > > Is there documentation on how they are generated? What changes to the > component would cause the generated GUID to change? > > Thanks, > -- > Nicolás > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- mvh Asbjørn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
