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.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:yansklyarenko+...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 22 March 2011 07:08
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to create a single component in output wxs file 
for whole directory using heat

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 (
http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/10/21/wix-a-better-tallow-paraffin.aspx),
created by John Robbins some time ago - it has a switch to support your
scenario. However, I've never tried it myself.

-- Yan

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Sanjay Rao
<s...@noida.interrasystems.com>wrote:

> 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
> installer become faster or not after having a less number of components.
>
> Does anybody knows that how to create minimum number of components for
> one directory using heat ?
>
> Regards,
> Sanjay Rao
>
>
>
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