Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files

Yes, you should specify -cg switch, providing the name of the ComponentGroup to be generated: Heat dir dir_path -cg HelpGroup ... -- Yan -Original Message- From: akapoor [mailto:anupama_kap...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 8:10 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files

Hi Yan Sklyarenko, Thanks a bunch for your suggestion. I got it all working now. -Anu Yan Sklyarenko wrote: 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

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files

Thanks for the mail. The file (help.wxs) that Heat generated, I see only one Fragment and one DirectoryRef Id, and then bunch of directory id and component id's. Sample of help.wxs: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi; Fragment

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files

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: !--

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 --- On Fri,

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of 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

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files

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.

[WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files

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

Re: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files

Hey Tom, I, personally, do not condone using the ZIP method. I actually don't see how it would be much faster to manage a ZIP file. Pretty much that is what MSI is doing for you now. You can change the compression ratios of the CAB files you put your product if you need to gain compression speed.