Query regarding TRANSFORMS Property
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I am looking for an answer to the below query...
Query: How many transforms can we pass to the TRANSFORMS property at a time.
I am looking for an answer to the below query...
Query: How many transforms can we pass to the TRANSFORMS property at a time.
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Posted by:
anonymous_9363
14 years ago
Great question!
I don't know but I'd imagine that the number is unlimited but there is probably a limit to the length of the string that the engine will handle. By that, I mean you could probably have many, many more transforms if they were all named with, say, a single letter and number (or double-letter...you get the idea) than if they were named like: "This is the English United States transform which includes the customisations for Accounts, Human Resources and Operations."
What that limit is...my guess would be 255 characters (255 is a popular number in Windows!) but I think it would be better answered in the MSDN Windows Installer web session or newsgroup.
I don't know but I'd imagine that the number is unlimited but there is probably a limit to the length of the string that the engine will handle. By that, I mean you could probably have many, many more transforms if they were all named with, say, a single letter and number (or double-letter...you get the idea) than if they were named like: "This is the English United States transform which includes the customisations for Accounts, Human Resources and Operations."
What that limit is...my guess would be 255 characters (255 is a popular number in Windows!) but I think it would be better answered in the MSDN Windows Installer web session or newsgroup.
Posted by:
the_apostate
14 years ago
Hi,
Thank you for the hint..[;)]. One of my friends found this -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367576(VS.85).aspx
Note A Windows Installer package can apply no more than 255 transforms when installing an application or update. When many transforms are necessary, they should be combined and previous obsolete transforms should be eliminated.
Thank you for the hint..[;)]. One of my friends found this -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367576(VS.85).aspx
Note A Windows Installer package can apply no more than 255 transforms when installing an application or update. When many transforms are necessary, they should be combined and previous obsolete transforms should be eliminated.
Posted by:
LB3
14 years ago
I wouldn't want to work on a package with 255 transforms please.. lol [8D]
Posted by:
AngelD
14 years ago
Spot on TK.
As always, switching to *NIX solves it all [8D]
A MAC would do it now when they are able to run on INTEL, I would however use OpenBSD instead.
As always, switching to *NIX solves it all [8D]
A MAC would do it now when they are able to run on INTEL, I would however use OpenBSD instead.
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