Heat is a harvesting tool that creates .wxs files that can be used to create an installer.
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In WXS, how to I refer to a file that is installed via a different component?
This question refers to output from heat.exe. I'm trying to do "the right thing" with respect to registering some .NET assemblies for COM interop in the MSI. Regasm.exe is the wrong thing.
Calling regasm.exe directly, which is easy and works…

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How to create shortcuts to files harvested by heat.exe?
Using WiX Toolset 3.10, and trying to create shortcuts to certain files that have been harvested with the heat.exe utility, as by:
"%WIX%\bin\heat.exe" dir SourceDir -nologo -platform x64 ^
-ke -gg -g1 -suid -srd -scom -sreg -dr INSTALLDIR ^
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Referencing another .wxs file in my Product.wxs
I generated a heat.exe output to include so basic executable in my main installer package. The heat output "heat.exe is in a seperate folder. The problem is I don't know how to reference them in my main "FP7000TestApp.wxs" file. I'm working on…

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How to reference File element inside wxs file generated by heat.exe in Wix
I am going to create setup for my web project. I use http://blog.bartdemeyer.be/2013/10/create-an-installer-for-website-with-wix-part-1/ as my reference. In the middle of article, author create a file called WebSiteContent.wxs using…

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Using Wix Variables in the XSL Transfomration
I'm harvesting my project files using Heat. but since I want to have shortcuts on the target system the main executable must be ignored by Heat and added manually in the main wxs file.
I'm using the following xsl file to tell heat to ignore my…

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Transform Heat generated .wxs with XSLT (add RegistryValue and edit some values)
This is my desired output:

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WiX (Votive) Project Reference Harvesting (HEAT) an ASP.Net Web Application
What I'm Doing
I have an ASP.Net Web Application and a WiX Setup Project in Visual Studio 2010. I can explicitly harvest the web application with the following HEAT command set as a pre-build event for the setup project:
“%WIX%\bin\heat.exe”…

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wix - Copy an entire directory and all of its contents
My wix installer needs the contents of a directory to be copied to a destination folder. I understand that the Directory element has a FileSource attrib. I tried something like this:

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Wix Toolkit: Heat balking about DLL's
I'm just beginning to mess with Wix, and upon using heat.exe, it complained about 4 (and only 4) dlls I am referencing. About 30 others it was fine with.
1) I've got no idea as to what is causing this. Most SO posts about this sort of error are…

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fast method with numpy for 2D Heat equation
I'm looking for a method for solve the 2D heat equation with python. I have already implemented the finite difference method but is slow motion (to make 100,000 simulations takes 30 minutes). The idea is to create a code in which the end can…

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Can I optionally Include specific file extensions with Wix Heat using transforms?
Is it possible to include only certain file Extensions when using an xslt file to transform heat harvesting components using wix? I know I can exclude file extensions with the following:

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How to add RegistryKey to all components in files generated by "heat" utility?
I create installation package from several *.wxs files where several of them are generated by heat utility and contains ComponentGroups.
Now I need to create installation package for per-user installation.
RegistryKey should be added to each…

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Wix\heat.exe strange output
I have a directory with one file there: Iesi.Collections.dll.
When I run the following command:
heat.exe dir D:\MyDir -cg References -srd -o D:\Product.wxs -nologo -gg -g1 -dr INSTALLFOLDER
I got really strange output. May be it is strange only for…

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Wix heat command exited with code 319 (-out parameter must specify a file path)
I'm building an installer for my web app (.NET), using Wix v3.7 and Visual Studio 2012.
To harvest my web project files I'm using heat, and my .wixproj looks like this:
wix
heat

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Achieving heat vision in OpenCV
I am doing a project and my professor said "try to use heat vision as well". I am doing the whole project in OpenCV, and no way of dropping it.
I have no idea about how to do heat vision. I got only $50-$70 to spend for any device because rest is…

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