WiX setup: adding a reference to Visual Studio project output issue

Question

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:

.net class library;
.net application, which uses class library;
WiX setup project.

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:

what Id for ComponentRef should I use?
is this the correct way to reference VS projects' output?

I'm using VS 2010 and WiX 3.6 RC.

caveman_dick · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-23 12:41:12Z

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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>

edited Dec 23, 2015 at 12:41

answered Aug 10, 2012 at 11:21

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Dennis Over a year ago

Thanks a lot! I've been added components manually... but then I've decided, that some automation in this process will be nice.

Christopher Painter Over a year ago

FYI it's $(var.VisualStudioProjectName.MacroName). A project may have 0, 1 or many classes.

SOFKiNG Over a year ago

how i can add 2 folders in directory to out put ? @caveman_dick

caveman_dick Over a year ago

@SOFKiNG I don't get what you mean. If the above question doesn't answer what you need you should ask a separate question yourself.

Farrukh Waheed · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-19 07:52:04Z

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As an alternative, you can use HarvestProject, HeatDirectory and HarvestDirectory MsBuild tasks:

These are needed to embedded into your *.wixproj file or you can create a separate MSBuild compatible proj file.

answered Sep 19, 2014 at 7:52

Farrukh Waheed

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