When I did this, I still got the ugly folders.

From: Justin Rockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:51 PM
To: Cullen Waters; Justin Rockwood; 'Mark Capaldi'; 
WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive - Adding File as a Link

Another thing you can try, which is the way it's supposed to "officially" work, 
is this:

<ItemGroup>
                <Compile Include="..\..\..\FileName.cs">
                                <Link>FileName.cs</Link>
                </Compile>
</ItemGroup>

I can't remember if this works in Votive or not. I think it does, though. Try 
it out and let me know.

Justin

From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:47 PM
To: Justin Rockwood; 'Mark Capaldi'; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive - Adding File as a Link

If you edit the project file directly, you can do this.

In the
<ItemGroup>
                <Compile Include="my file.wxs" />
</ItemGroup>

Section, just add another entry like this:

<Compile Include="<PathToFile>MySecondFIle.wxs"/>

Now, there is a catch.  When you reload the project in VS, it's going to be 
ugly.

VS will add a <Folder> tag for each folder in the relative path from your 
project directory to the file.  And it adds one folder entry for each level of 
folder.  For instance, I have a file that is two directories up from my project 
file.  So, when I open the project in VS, I have an empty folder for .., an 
empty folder for ..\.., and a folder that is for ..\..\, but has the item in it.

Not pretty, but it works.

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Rockwood
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:28 PM
To: 'Mark Capaldi'; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive - Adding File as a Link

It's one of the things on my list to do, but linked files do not currently work 
yet. Sorry about that.

Justin

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Capaldi
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:10 AM
To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Votive - Adding File as a Link

Hi,

I'm playing around with Votive v3.0.2211.0 in Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition 
for Software Developers. I would like to add an existing item into my WiX 
project as a link, but the dialog box doesn't have the drop down box on the Add 
button like other projects. I can only Add files, which means that the file is 
physically copied into the project folder on the file system

Is there any way to add files to a Votive projects as a link?

Regards,

Mark Capaldi
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