I'm trying to learn WiX and now creating sample setup project, using WiX Setup Project template for Visual Studio.
I have a solution with three projects:
Of course, I want to add my first two projects' output as components to WiX setup.
As described here and here (and as far, as I understand), adding a reference in WiX project and setting it Harvest
property to True
automatically adds a component for project's output.
Now, I want to reference to this component in some Feature
description.
The questions:
Id
for ComponentRef
should I use?I'm using VS 2010 and WiX 3.6 RC.
Currently Harvesting referenced project outputs does not work in Wix3.6 and will be added in Wix4.0
For now you will have to manually add the binary outputs into your project yourself (which I personally prefer anyway). For the examples below the Components will be named the same as their Child File elements (dotNetClass.Output and dotNetApp.Output).
<Component>
<File Id="dotNetClass.Output"
Name="$(var.dotNetClass.TargetFileName)"
Source="$(var.dotNetClass.TargetPath)"
KeyPath="yes" />
</Component>
<Component>
<File Id="dotNetApp.Output"
Name="$(var.dotNetApp.TargetFileName)"
Source="$(var.dotNetApp.TargetPath)"
KeyPath="yes" />
</Component>
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