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The Key Path is how Windows Installer decides whether a
component is already installed or not. If the key path is present, the installer
doesn't do anything regarding the other resources in that component. For files
it will also look at the version numbers, but for registry data it simply
determines whether the key or value is present.
The same problems arise with adding a registry key/value to
or removing one from a component as for adding and removing files.
Best practice is to keep one component per resource.
See Changing the Component Code at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> for
more information on this.
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Mike Dimmick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff MacDuff Sent: 16 October 2006 18:28 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] What is KeyPath in refrence to Registry keys I am trying to port some Wix from
one file to another, in the V1 file … there are about 100 registry keys and each
one with it’s individual component ID. I would like to consolidate all of the
registry keys into 1 component. However, I can only list one of the
keys with a KeyPath=”yes” but I don’t know what keypath is or what it’s behavior
is …. Looking at the help file the definition is: Set this attribute to
'yes' to make this registry key the KeyPath of the parent component. Only one
resource (registry, file, etc) can be the KeyPath of a
component. So currently I am trying to figure
out what keypath refers too? I cant find any more info on it and why it would be
“bad” if the value is no. -Jeff |
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