Okay so that's why it might be heat that is causing my problem with vs
complaining about having extra files. I need to either let heat pull the
file into the wix installer or explicitly specify inclusion of the file in
the wix installer. Thanks again for your help.

 

From: Phill Hogland [via Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset]
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Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 5:47 AM
To: assassinator27
Subject: Re: WSX file contains extra files?

 

.targets files are MSBuild "scripts". 
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164312.aspx

MSBuild is used by VS and by wix.  In fact each project file (.csproj or
.wixproj) is a .targets file, as the .targets extension is just a 'default'
extension for a MSBuild "script" file.  A developer can write .targets files
to customise and control the MSBuild build process, which is what appears to
have been done in the code that was posted earlier. 

heat.exe is just one of the tools in the wix toolset, which is used to
automatically generate wix authoring (wxs files) by looking in a folder (or
some other optional location). 
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/overview/alltools.html
  

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