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Heat is a harvesting tool that creates .wxs files that can be used to create an installer.

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WiX + Heat, harvesting a directory but not including parent folder in installation

I have a pre-build event for a wix installer, it looks like this: "%WIX%\bin\heat.exe" dir %SystemDrive%\Staging -dr INSTALLFOLDER -cg Components -var "var.Project.TargetDir" -ag -out "$(SolutionDir)Project.Installer\Installer.Heat.wxs" It takes…
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How to set the variable -var defined in heat.exe to the wxs file?

I am running the following command: heat.exe dir bin\Release -sfrag -sreg -var var.sourcebin -dr myappfolder -cg myapp_comp_group This generates a nice wxs file that looks a bit like this:
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Wix/Heat: Access inside .wixproj file

I am running a heat command as pre-build event in my installer.wixproj. I want my dir-parameter (HarvestPath) to be the target directory of my included project reference. Now inside my .wixproj-file I have
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How do I fix a HEAT5301 error with WiX 3.5.1811.0

My project, which used to build fine with WiX 3.0, now fails with heat.exe : error HEAT5301: Invalid project output group: Binaries3bSources3bSatellites%3bDocuments. I found this ProjectOutputGroup in the wix.targets file but it looks like…
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WIX - Condition on ComponentGroupRef after using heat.exe

Inside my main .wxs, I have components like: $(var.CheckBoxB3)=1
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Wix Harvest: Same Component/File ID when files are in different folders

So I may not be doing this correct, but here it goes: I have one application with references to 4 SQL Server assemblies App must work against SQL 2008 and 2010. The only way I've gotten this to work is, to have my app reference a 'generic' path for…
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Assigning a Floating IP to a Load Balancer in a heat template

Does anyone know how to associate a floating IP address with a load balancer in a heat template? I can create a load balancer on an instance (or a bunch of instances, but starting small) in heat; and can associate a floating IP address to the load…
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Gnuplot: Trouble creating heat map / reading data

(I hope you get the meaning of what I write, english isn't my mother tongue.) I have trouble creating a heat map showing air humidity using a txt file. My data looks like this: 26.02.13 10:30:00 MEZ 31.79688 31.0625 32.875 31.8125 31.46875 …
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Wix generate single component id for entire tree

I am someone with little to no experience with wix and I am trying to support Windows also for the component I am responsible for. I am trying to create merge module for a set of files that my product generates. These files exist in numerous sub…
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Harvesting multiple files with one C# COM dll

I'm compiling a WiX installer and using Heat to harvest my files but I'm running into a problem where I have a directory I'm harvesting that contains 1 C# COM dll. I need to basically run regasm on this. I have the following in my wix project file…
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Move from manual component creation to harvesting with the HeatDirectory task

I am using WiX 3.8 to build a project which installs a product. The installer is basically done. One of the programmes which gets installed by the package is relying on dlls by a third party which get updated frequently. Idiotically the version…
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Wix Heat - Replace an autogenerated GUID with known string using XSLT

I'm working on migrating a Windows Service VDPROJ to WiX. I was able to use HEAT to harvest output from my Windows Service project into a fragment. Currently, in order for my custom actions to work properly, I manually change some of the generated…
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How to avoid unnecessary tags when use Heat in wix

I'm using HEAT to auto generate WiX fragments for a directory of files. When the --.wxs file creating, why it include some unnecessary tags within the component? like follows scenario 1
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How do I put boundary conditions in 1D Heat Equation?

I am trying to solve a problem of 1D heat equation, where u[x,t] is the density of energy in a uni-dimensional bar, in the time t=0 all the energy is concentrated in the point x=0. I want to find solutions for a given time, like t= 64, 128,256,…
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Using AWS-Cloudformatting-Resources with Heat & Openstack in a local cloud?

We have set up a local cloud-environment with Openstack (essex) and Heat. But we are confronted with the Problem that we want to add additional files/packages on first boot of an Instance. As far as I know this can be done with…
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