I've been using Burn and Wix for a bit now and while not a Wix specific issue I was hoping for some comments from the community. I currently have a single MSI with ~30k components. During installations and major upgrades it appears the sheer number of components is causing performance issues (the files are data files so there aren't version info headers). What is the best way of increasing installation and updates performance without sacrificing best practices (one file per component)? Would breaking the install into multiple MSI's provide any benefit even though all of the MSI's would need to be installed? Would embedding the data into multiple DLLs with version info be worth the effort? (Most of the files are < 1kb, but I believe Windows installer hashes the files if they don't have version info and the create and modify timestamps are the same.) Are there any other options available?
This MSI is being serviced by burn, so the system restore point should be disabled as burn creates one for all of the items in the chain. I am running RemoveExistingProducts after InstallInitialize. I am using external CAB files, and all CABs, MSI's and the bundle are digitally signed. Thanks, Jacob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
