What happens is you run the tool repeatedly? Are the same GUIDs assigned to the same files? If not then you are generating Component Rule violations. This old blog post has more details: http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2003/10/18/56497.aspx
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 12:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions Can you elaborate on which of the component rules #2 presents problem for? I wrote a tool to auto-gen my components from my web structure as well. It puts every file in its own component with a new Guid for the id. Is this approach problematic? Is it different than what Visual Studio Installer does? -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 1:55 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions 1. It would be fantastic if someone wrote the extension that made it easy to author VS packages or wrote a harvester so heat could generate much of it automatically. At the very least, you could open a Feature Request. 2. This is a particular challenge with the Windows Installer due to the Component Rules. If you have a solution for including large number of files that does not violate the Component Rules that'd be a great thing to add to the WiX toolset. 3. Documentation always needs lots of work. <smile/> Are you offering to help improve it? Many people make this suggestion, no one steps up to help. The active volunteers on the WiX toolset are all busy fixing bugs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
