Bugs item #1670269, was opened at 2007-02-27 19:14
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: elsapo (elsapo)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: wix3 Getting Started tutorial uses repeated GUIDs

Initial Comment:
In the wix3 Getting Started (in the distributed, compiled help file version), 
the same GUID is used for Package, Product, and Directory.

I'm pretty sure that is a bug -- I mean, if the user replaces all those 
instances with one new GUID (which is what a newbie may think they're supposed 
to do), I think that will be very wrong -- they're really supposed to put a new 
GUID into each occurrence.

The web tutorial version very nicely uses invalid GUIDs in all places, to force 
the enduser to generate new GUIDs, like so:

<Product Name='Foobar 1.0' Id='YOURGUID-86C7-4D14-AEC0-86416A69ABDE'

and furthermore, the web version changes the GUID every time that the user is 
supposed to change the GUID, to avoid the user thinking they are supposed to 
copy & paste the GUID from above.




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