Hi, In WiX 3.0 and higher is the excellent Heat program that harvests a directory.
My Paraffin tool will do what you want as well (I wrote Paraffin before Heat got much better). The idea of Paraffin: http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/10/21/wix-a-better-tallow-paraffin.aspx The latest version: http://www.wintellect.com/CS/files/folders/8198/download.aspx John Wintellect http://www.wintellect.com 877-968-5528 >-----Original Message----- >From: Sankaranarayanan [mailto:loony...@yahoo.com] >Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:32 AM >To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [WiX-users] Include all files from a folder in MSI > >Hi, > >Whats the best way to include all files from a source folder and deploy them >onto a target folder during installation. > >Currently I have separate <Component> and <File> elements for each source >file in the wxs file - whenever a new file is added in the source folder, I >go ahead and edit the wxs file to include the new file. I am looking for >some way to dynamically include all files from the source folder in the >installer. > >Thanks, >Loonysan >http://mystutter.blogspot.com > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-- >Return on Information: >Google Enterprise Search pays you back >Get the facts. >http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev >_______________________________________________ >WiX-users mailing list >WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
