More generally Components are "small" and Features are "things users can turn on and off". So, typically a Feature contains many Components.
Also, Components install everything to a single directory. So if you need to install to different Directories you need different Components. Does that help? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Lemire Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 5:36 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] NEWBIE <directory> <component> <file> problem Hi, First just a warning - this is my first foray into wix. I am trying to build a wxs file to install an asp.net web service and an asp.net web app that is a front end to it. If I understand the logical <component> and <feature> constructs correctly then each of these is a <component> and because I want the user to be able to choose between installing one or the other or both I should make a <features> for each one as well, each <feature> having one respective <component>. What I'm having trouble figuring out (and can't find an example of) is how to take the set of files for each of these two logical components and install them into the separate directories used by asp.net (root, App_Code, App_WebReferences, img, etc). Just glancing at the examples it looks like all the files of a component are going to go into one directory. Thanks :-) -john PS any tips on getting candle to work from VS2005 would be great too. I installed votive and can author ok but when I build it says it cant run candle. It gives the full path and if I copy/paste it into a cmd window it runs fine. It's also in my path so I don't even need to qualify it but somehow it's not getting run from within VS :-( _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
