heat.exe doesn't support this out of the box - it was designed to encourage
the best practice, which is one file - one component. However, you can
apply an XSL transform to the heat output and change it the way you need.
You can also take a look at the Paraffin tool (
You can also use WiXEdit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wixedit/) to do that
but you'll need to use version 0.7.2.3 or older as they changed it to work as
per heat.exe from 0.7.3 onwards.
Palbinder Sandher
Software Deployment Engineer
T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500
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Yan,
This comes up from time to time and I want to stress that there is no
universal
best practice that states every file should be the keyfile of it's own
component. 1:1 is the most common situation that you would want to do this but
it is not universally true. The MSI SDK talks about
Hi,
I have a directory having thousand of files and directories in it. Since
these files/folders updated rarely in one version to another version, So
I just want to create minimum number of component for this directory to
make the installer faster. This is just an experiment to check whether
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