Hey Everyone, Well, from the ICE47 ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368976(VS.85).aspx) message it does imply it is only a Win9X warning. However, as with the length of .cab names and other rules that seem antiquated, it is best to follow them or possibly face problems in the future.
Now that my disclaimer is over, I do agree this message seems to be legacy. I have sent in an ask on why this still exists and look forward to the reply. There is a workaround, this is to add the components in small blocks to hidden features under your primary feature. Lame? Yes, but it works and keeps you compliant. Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove <-- NEW On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Peter Shirtcliffe <pshirtcli...@sdl.com>wrote: > > Brian or anyone - do you know why this limit exists ? Weve had a feature > with well over 1600 components and never run into any problems. > Installation, maintenance, patching and upgrade all work. I wonder > whether its purely a Windows 9x limit or some circumstance that we > havent found yet. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com] > Sent: 06 August 2009 18:49 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to make use of the output .wxs file of > heat.exein WiX3.0? > > Hey Bonn, > > Just a friendly reminder. Features are only allowed to have 1600 > components according to MSI docs. Heat generates one component per file > so I would recommend breaking up your harvesting effort into more than > one directory and having more than one output file if you have greater > than 1600 files. > This might also help you when using the -cg <Group1-n> switch. > > Thanks, > > Brian Rogers > "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me > http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove <-- NEW > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Richard Hollis <richhol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I think you need to use a component group: > > > > heat ... -cg WebSiteFiles .... > > > > This wraps all your components up into a single component grouping > > that you can then reference easily in your feature: > > > > <Feature ...> > > <ComponentGroupRef Id="WebSiteFiles" /> </Feature> > > > > Richard > > > > 2009/8/6 bonn deng <bonnd...@gmail.com> > > > > > Hi all, I am now using heat.exe to generate the .wxs file of one > > > directory with the command: > > > heat.exe dir "." -gg -nologo -sfrag -out test.wxs -template:product > > > , where the current directory contains thousands of files (because > > > > it's the root dir of a web application). > > > Then I want to include all the files listed in the test.wxs into > > another > > > .wxs file, but the question is: there're so many components and the > > > test.wxs file doesn't list all the components in the Feature > > > Element, in this case it would be impossible for me to do it > > > manually, What can I do? 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