Comments on: Highlights of WiX v3.0.4318.0 http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/21/highlights-of-wix-v3043180/ Bob Arnson on setup and servicing with WiX and MSI Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:35:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Arnson http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/21/highlights-of-wix-v3043180/comment-page-1/#comment-7091 Bob Arnson Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:32:03 +0000 http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/21/highlights-of-wix-v3043180/#comment-7091 Brad, >>>but you want several files in that component (which is legal if they are not binaries), It's legal even if they are binaries, but it's not legal to change them once you've shipped an .msi file that uses one. That's why it's risky to generate file lists. Brad,

>>>but you want several files in that component (which is legal if they are not binaries),

It’s legal even if they are binaries, but it’s not legal to change them once you’ve shipped an .msi file that uses one. That’s why it’s risky to generate file lists.

]]> By: Brad B http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/21/highlights-of-wix-v3043180/comment-page-1/#comment-7090 Brad B Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:03:57 +0000 http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/21/highlights-of-wix-v3043180/#comment-7090 Wix is great so far! By the way I made my own custom extension today to allow me to do "dyamic files", whereby you can have a component which you don't want the GUID to change, but you want several files in that component (which is legal if they are not binaries), so I leveraged the of the proceprocessor, and added my own custom extension which I could pass it a folder path, and it would return me a semilcolon delimited string of file names in the folder, which then get put into the foreach as a variable, and it works great! So I have a component, and then with a file element template.. :) Thanks for WiX I am starting to love it! Wix is great so far!

By the way I made my own custom extension today to allow me to do “dyamic files”, whereby you can have a component which you don’t want the GUID to change, but you want several files in that component (which is legal if they are not binaries), so I leveraged the of the proceprocessor, and added my own custom extension which I could pass it a folder path, and it would return me a semilcolon delimited string of file names in the folder, which then get put into the foreach as a variable, and it works great!

So I have a component, and then with a file element template.. :)

Thanks for WiX I am starting to love it!

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