1) I believe I posted a detailed explanation on this. You should only use heat
manually!
> From: cameron.ker...@philips.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:19:54 +0100
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding multiple files to component
>
> Thanks. I guess people have been giving me two different responses here and
> I'm trying to figure out the right way to do this.
>
> 1) Should I use heat each time during a build, to harvest all the files in a
> directory (directory contains a executable and all of its associated dlls and
> dependencies). Then include that fragment with my main wix project.
>
> 2) Or do I either use this WixFileTool or Heat to just generate this for me
> once, add it to my Wix Project, and forever maintain that list of files.
> Since we are still in the beginning of the development for this project, it
> is likely files will be renamed/files will be added/files will be deleted.
>
> What is the proper way / benefits of each?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivo Stoyanov [mailto:ivos...@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:10 AM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding multiple files to component
>
> You can try this - simple GUI
> http://flexsetup.codeplex.com/
> WiXFileTool: generates WiX file definitions and component definitions for a
> collection of files
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Kerber, Cameron" <cameron.ker...@philips.com>
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 8:43:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding multiple files to component
>
> Yes, I understand that you can put multiple files in a component, but that
> means I have to write the Source for each of the files, and spell out each
> file xml element. I basically just want to set the Source to a directory and
> include all files under that directory. Or some process that converts a
> directory to <File Id="A" Source="A.txt"> <File Id="B" Source="B.txt">
>
> I can't be typing this each and everytime.
>
> Heat tool. I'll look into it.
>
> Do you know of any websites with tutorial on it? Any way to integrate into
> MSBuild?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kristoffer Danielsson [mailto:kristoffer.daniels...@live.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:36 AM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding multiple files to component
>
>
> I'm also a newbie, so my solution below could be "wrong". However, it works:
>
>
>
> <Directory Id="SourceDirectoryDir" Name="Source">
>
> <Component Id="BunchOfFiles" Guid="YOURGUID">
>
> <File Id="FileX" Source="1.htm">
>
> <File Id="FileY" Source="2.htm">
>
> <File Id="FileZ" Source="3.htm">
>
> </Component>
>
> </Directory>
>
>
> Something like that. However, I do remember that this technique is not
> recommended - for some reason I don't know...
>
>
> > From: cameron.ker...@philips.com
> > To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:27:31 +0100
> > Subject: [WiX-users] Adding multiple files to component
> >
> > I'm sure this question has been asked before in some variety but searching
> > the mail archives on SourceForge is awful. I am also new to WIX
> >
> > Anyways, in my build process I am outputting a bunch of files to a
> > directory. I want all those files added to a component in my WIX project.
> > To build my WIX project, during my build process I just build my WIX
> > installer solution and it creates the setup package. So besides manually
> > adding all these files (~50) to my component by hand, I don't understand
> > how to accomplish this. All the tutorials just use one file in there
> > examples. No one uses adding files from a source directory.
> >
> > Thanks!
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