Bob,
As far as features / components are concerned, you probably want to look
at the Microsoft installer documentation.
Very basically though, "Features" are what the end user sees (e.g.
"Word", "Excel", etc), and have a one-to-many mapping with the
"Components" (word.exe, wordsupportfile.dll, etc.).
If you wish to be able to create a patch file at some point in the
future, then versioning rules require that you only have one executable
per component. If you have multiple executables in the same component,
you can only modify them as a complete set (remembering, of course, that
component rules also dictate that you change the GUID if any files are
added or removed).
For non-executable files which are always installed as a "package", it
may be appropriate to place them in the same component. That's really a
design decision for your installation and will vary depending on your
specific needs.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Richard
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Robert (LNG-CON)
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:09 AM
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Subject: [WiX-users] Sample web application wxs file
For some reason, I'm having some trouble following the WiX Tutorial
provided online. I was wondering if anyone on the list might happen to
have a sample of a WiX source file for installing an ASP.NET web
application that they wouldn't mind sharing. I really feel like if I
could look at a good sample file it would be more clear how I need to
approach this. More than anything, I'm having trouble understanding the
relationships between "components" and "features", and whether or not to
install each of my binaries for the app individually in its own
component, or just one component with all of the binaries I need in it,
etc. It seems to me like the tutorial and the help documentation
provided with the toolkit has a lot of "you can do it like this or like
this or like this", but not any "this is the best/right way to do X". I
just need to create an installer for a web app that will provide the
user with some options. Any advice or samples would be greatly
appreciated.
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