[WiX-users] How does WiX auto-generate GUIDs?

[Nicolás Alvarez]

Currently I'm using explicit GUIDs for all my components (except
harvested ones). It would make my code much simpler if I used Id="*"
and let WiX auto-generate them. The documentation says the generated
GUIDs are "stable", but I feel like I would trust them better if I
understood how they are generated under the hood :)

Is there documentation on how they are generated? What changes to the
component would cause the generated GUID to change?

Thanks,

[Asbjørn Mikkelsen]

Read the last paragraph here:
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/general/generate_guids.html

Post by Nicolás Alvarez
Currently I'm using explicit GUIDs for all my components (except
harvested ones). It would make my code much simpler if I used Id="*"
and let WiX auto-generate them. The documentation says the generated
GUIDs are "stable", but I feel like I would trust them better if I
understood how they are generated under the hood :)
Is there documentation on how they are generated? What changes to the
component would cause the generated GUID to change?
Thanks,
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[Neil Sleightholm]

There is some more information here http://installing.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/automatically-generating-component.html

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Asbjørn Mikkelsen [mailto:***@neslekkim.net]
Sent: 24 August 2014 09:38
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How does WiX auto-generate GUIDs?

Read the last paragraph here:
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/general/generate_guids.html

Post by Nicolás Alvarez
Currently I'm using explicit GUIDs for all my components (except
harvested ones). It would make my code much simpler if I used Id="*"
and let WiX auto-generate them. The documentation says the generated
GUIDs are "stable", but I feel like I would trust them better if I
understood how they are generated under the hood :)
Is there documentation on how they are generated? What changes to the
component would cause the generated GUID to change?
Thanks,
--
Nicolás
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