If you used heat.exe to generate your help.wxs, then it most likely contains a
ComponentGroup, which includes all the generated components. The components
should be included into a feature. The easiest way to do this is to reference
this ComponentGroup from your main.wxs.
I would do this:
<!-- main.wxs: -->
...
<Feature Id="ProductFeature">
<ComponentGroupRef Id="HelpCompGroup" />
</Feature>
...
Actually, to include the contents of a fragment into the project, you should
reference any element of that fragment in that project. If at least 1 entity
(component, component group, etc.) was referenced, all the fragment is included
into the project.
Hope this makes things clearer for you.
-- Yan
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From: akapoor [mailto:anupama_kap...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sun 7/19/2009 6:45
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files
Thanks John.
I used Heat (Wix 3.0) to generate a file (help.wxs) - this basically contains
lots of help files (html and also some images).
How to do I used this file (help.wxs) inside another wix file (product.wxs) -
this is main wix file.
Please let me know.
Thanks again,Anu
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From: John Robbins (via Nabble) <ml-user+58268-1057559...@n2.nabble.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files
To: "akapoor" <anupama_kap...@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 2:00 AM
Heat with WiX 3.0 does a pretty good job of coordinating and building WiX
fragments.
Long before the updated WiX 3.0 Heat, I wrote a tool for my use, Paraffin that
takes care of generating WiX fragments.
(http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2009/06/28/paraffin3-1-new-and-improved.aspx).
As with any tools that generate components, be extra careful and obey the
component rules. :)
John
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>Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:04 PM
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>files
>
>
>Can you please share your experience?
>
>I also want to do exact same thing that you are talking about. I am not
>sure, which way to go about.
>
>
>Tom Crozier wrote:
>>
>> All - I need to know the best way to handle installing a large number
>of
>> files. As part of the project I have 2 different directories with
>> approximately 24,000 files (including subfolders) in each. I could use
>> heat to generate the initial list but then I am assuming I have to
>> maintain the list from then on since I would not want the file id's
>> changing from release to release. The other method would be to zip up
>each
>> directory and install the zip file. In this case I would need to write
>a
>> custom action to unzip the files (unless there is already something
>> available). Ideas? Suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks - TopCat
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