Hmmm. You shouldn't have to harvest file by file for heat. The usual practice is to harvest part or all of a tree. You can use an XSLT transform passed to Heat to add the assembly attribute if this is necessary.
That being said, it is very unusual to push the majority of a product's assemblies into the GAC. The only deployment I've ever worked on that required this treatment was a BizTalk application. Push a lot of assemblies into the GAC is likely to make your product very unpopular with any product that also uses those assemblies--especially if the expected AssemblyVersions are different. The general practice is to GAC only a few, stable assemblies used by multiplce applications to the GAC. You may be looking for load time performance improvements. The GAC has some effect on this, but NGEN has even more effect. Wix completely supports NGEN'ing through the NetFX extension. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS 66214 | Ext: 431050 |[email protected] -----Original Message----- From: ssmsam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 10:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to register all the dlls in a folder and sub folder to GAC using heat.exe Hi Sir, I had gone through that thread before.It says how to automate the task of generating components for all files in a folder/sub folder as a whole. But it does not tell about how push a dll file to GAC/DllRegisterServer. So My question is, For every file we include in the component we have got an attribute called "assembly" which takes 3 values. ".net", "win32" and "no" . (making it to ".net" wix pushes that dll to GAC) In our product We have some dll files which we are 1). registering to GAC using a EXE C.A by calling RegAsm.exe. (InstallShield currently). 2) registering to DllRegisterServer using EXE C.A which calls RegSvr.exe. If i have to achieve this in wix , i have to harvest all the files using heat as normal xcopy components and then 1). i have to add a "assembly=.net" attribute manually for all tons of dlls. 2). harvesting each file separately using "heat fle ......................." . I found all of your posts very helpful and you are very active in the forum. Tons of thanks :) Regards, Sampat On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Phill Hogland [via Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset] <[email protected]> wrote: > See this thread for example of harvesting a folder: > > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Automati > cally-harvest-files-in-VS-2013-td7597592.html#a7597939 > > I don't have any experience with GAC or Com+, but I assume that the > above code could be modified to not set the SuppressRegistry and > SuppressCom flags. The original poster in the above thread was using > HeatDirectory task in a BeforeBuild event. At the end I posted what I > just learned last week on using HarvestDirectory target, which is a cleaner > implementation. > In both cases I would check the generated wxs file to see if it is > what you really wanted. 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