How about ComponentGroup? How many components can I have per ComponentGroup?
Because I have 4 componentgroups with each having atleast 40-50 components and 
each component have just 1 file.


Arun Perregattur


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:22 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.

Have you read this: http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2003/10/18/56497.aspx 
?  That explains why one file per component is recommended.

-----Original Message-----
From: Maheswaran Selvaraj [mailto:maheswaran.selva...@proteans.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 07:07
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.

Hi Neil,

I have read in Wix tutorial that

"Installing a component should never influence other components,
removing one should never
damage another component or leave any orphaned resource on the target
machine."

Link: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson1.php#1.2

So as I have mentioned earlier removing a component having a .css file
leaves another
component which have .aspx file orphaned or invalid
In this scenario, still advised to put a single file per Component?


Thanks
Maheswaran Selvaraj

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:51 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.

In general the advice is one file per component. I think Rob Mensching
has some information on this on his blog.

Neil

Neil Sleightholm
X2 Systems Limited
n...@x2systems.com <mailto:n...@x2systems.com>


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From: Maheswaran Selvaraj [mailto:maheswaran.selva...@proteans.com]
Sent: Wed 07/01/2009 06:00
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Defining components and Files in Wix Installer.



I am beginner in Wix installer development, I need Wix installer to be
created for my web application.

I need to get .wxs file generated for every build. My web application
folder structure look like this

                        I     Images

                        ii    Css

                        iii   AspxPages

Each folder has some files. When i use Heat.exe  to generate WXS file.



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi
<http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi> ">

    <Product Id="PUT-GUID-HERE" Language="1033"
Manufacturer="PUT-COMPANY-NAME-HERE" Name="PUT-PRODUCT-NAME-HERE" >

        <Package Compressed="yes" InstallerVersion="200" />

        <Feature Id="ProductFeature" Level="1"
Title="PUT-FEATURE-TITLE-HERE">

     <Fragment>

        <DirectoryRef Id="AspxPages" FileSource="D:\AspxPages">

            <Component Id="ActiveDirectoryUserHelper.cs"
Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE">

                <File Id="ActiveDirectoryUserHelper.cs"
Name="ActiveDirectoryUserHelper.cs" KeyPath="yes"
Source="D:\ActiveDirectoryUserHelper.cs" />

            </Component>

        </DirectoryRef>

 <Fragment>

        <DirectoryRef Id="CSS" FileSource="D:\Css">

            <Component Id="ApplicationCSS" Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE">

                <File Id="ApplicationCSS" Name="Application.CSS"
KeyPath="yes" Source="D:\Application.CSS" />

            </Component>

        </DirectoryRef>

    </Fragment>

    </Fragment>

</Wix>



Multiple components are created with single file as its resources. Is
this right way to organize our applications into components ?

Should not we put all the files in a single component ?  Like

<Component id="WebApplication" Guid="Some-Guid">

                 <File id="AdminPage" name="AdminPage.aspx"/>

                 <File id="CSS" name="Application.CSS"/>

                <File id="AdminIcon" name="Admin.Ico"/>

</Component>

Ideally removing  one component should not influence on another. In this
case removing CSS component and its resources Make ASPX Component
invalid.

The file which resides in ASPX component have dependency on another CSS
or Images Component resource. is there any way to configure dependency
list ?

what is ideal approach for defining components for Web Application in
installer? It would be great if anybody explain on it.





Thanks

Maheswaran Selvaraj


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