Use smaller Fragments. You can nest ComponentGroupRefs under ComponentGroups. So split your Fragments into their smallest parts (optional stuff in an "Optional Fragment" and required stuff in "Required Fragment"). Then you can have Optional "nest a reference to Required" Component Group. It'll all stitch back together.
-----Original Message----- From: Drew Turner [mailto:dr...@pandell.com] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 14:59 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WiXLib - Including some or all components. Hello, We have recently updated our solution from using a Merge Module to utilize a WiX library. Right now the library is used to include a set of binaries in other projects. Basically there is a DirectoryRef that contains a of the component consisting of the (dll, pdb and xml files). Then there is a ComponentGroup with references to each of the components. Here is the basic structure of the library. <Fragment> <DirectoryRef Id="AllBinaries"> <Component Id="RequiredBinary" Guid="..."> <File></File> ... </Component> <Component Id="OptionalBinary" Guid="..."> <File></File> ... </Component> ... </DirectoryRef> <ComponentGroup Id="ComponentGroup"> <ComponentRef Id="RequiredBinary" /> <ComponentRef Id="OptionalBinary" /> </ComponentGroup> </Fragment> The directory is referenced under a target directory and the component group is referenced under a feature in the setup project utilizing this WiX library. This approach works great for the scenario when we want to include the entire set of binaries. Although it seems to fall down when we only want to include certain components. For example say I only wanted to include the RequiredBinary for a certain project. I was wondering if you had any suggestions on a better structure or technique to share some or all of the components. Everything that I tried resulted in a duplicate directory reference or Orphaned components. Also I was trying to avoid including each component individually in the scenario where we are including all binaries. Thanks, Drew Turner Developer Pandell Technology Corp. d: 403.685.6236 c: 403.880.8838 e: dr...@pandell.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
