Once you've chosen it don't change it. Name is made of localized product name and version number. Net Framework 3. If not the installation is aborted. By doing the Installed OR File names are made up. Add path to your pics. Using the EmbedCab attribute, we can decide whether we want the cabinet archive of our installation files to become part of the. Embedding is the usual decision for the final installation package thus resulting in a single, self-contained file for download or shipment on media.
If neither Cabinet nor EmbedCab is specified, the source files will be left untouched: they can then be copied directly on the distribution media, together with the installer. As we have stressed in the introduction, Windows Installer moved from the earlier programmatic approach to a declarative, descriptive one: we describe the hierarchical structure of our source folder structure using hierarchically nested XML structures, and expect the installer to recreate this structure during installation on the user machine.
Windows Installer requires us to start with an outermost folder, the root destination folder for the whole installation. It has a predefined identifier of TARGETDIR and it will be set to our root directory that contains the source cabinet file or the source file tree of the installation package, which also have a predefined name: SourceDir.
This provides the basic link between where to install from and where to install to :. Inside this root folder, we go on with our actual structure. According to established guidelines, installed files go into predetermined locations. Shortcuts, desktop icons, user preferences, and so forth all have their own predefined target locations.
For our convenience, the installer environment provides predefined names for all of them, allowing us to refer to them very easily. This also frees us from localization issues because these folders might very well have different, localized names in non-English Windows versions.
With our own nested folders, we have to specify each level separately:. Note that for each element and this will be the case throughout the use of WiX we have to provide an Id identifier.
Most of the time, these identifiers must be unique because we will cross-reference them all across the WiX source file, so make sure you come up with a naming scheme that makes it easy to follow. In some cases like ProgramFilesFolder we can use predefined names.
We will later refer to this property name again. The notion of components and the rules governing their use are probably the most important concepts of the Windows Installer technology and failing to observe these rules is the primary reason for failing setups.
Thus, it is very important for us to get a good understanding of components before we can go on with our first sample.
The component is the atomic unit of things to be installed. It consists of resourcesfiles, registry keys, shortcuts, or anything elsethat should always be installed as a single unit. Installing a component should never influence other components, removing one should never damage another component or leave any orphaned resource on the target machine. As a consequence, components cannot share files: the same file going to the same location must never be included in more than one component.
It's not at the component level that you have to think about what files make up your product. If the product requires an EXE, three DLLs and a couple of data files, this doesn't mean they have to go into a single component, quite the opposite.
Later on, we will decide at a higher level of the hierarchy what components belong together to form a standalone part of your product.
Again, a component should only contain items that belong together so strongly that they always need to be installed or removed together. If this means a single file, then your components will contain a single file each. This is not only normal but exactly what you're expected to do.
Don't be afraid, Windows Installer can efficiently handle thousands of components or more, if needed.
This code just goes into an ItemGroup in your. If you're not sure how to tweak your project file, check out this video. Having said all this, if the main issue is simply that there are lots of files, I would simply say knuckle down and just define the list. Use the Heat tool as a scaffold if you like, but there's no substitute for just learning the language and working with it. Trying to do things with auto generated code can introduce subtle issues, and it's always simpler to work with a static list.
I do something similar to what you require here during my installation. This way if you add or delete any binaries in your bin dir it will automatically get picked up when you rebuild your installer if the Bin.
Now you need to make sure you define the variable "BinDir" for wix which points to the bin dir on the build machine. You also need to add the Bin. Click that and select "Add as link". I think there's an actual heat target somewhere in wix but I haven't looked through that enough to know how to use it yet. It may be not as sophisticated as command-line tools like heat , but it is much simpler and can be a nice and friendly tool in the beginning, when you just start learning WiX - and want a quickstart.
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I would suggest you use the heat tool instead of this Copy method. Have you managed to solved your problem? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.
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