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POIn Wix, can one define a ComponentGroup and Directory at the same time?
 

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    <p>I'm new to WiX. Very new. Is there a way to define both a ComponentGroup and a Directory at the same time?</p> <p>I have a large number of files, on the order of 300 or so total, that need to be split into a number of groups, with each group having somewhere around 50 files. </p> <p>Using heat.exe, I was able to create a Fragment that creates Components for each file. I would like to avoid having to re-list each and every one of these components in a separate ComponentGroup definition. I would love to be able to wrap the list of components generated by heat in a ComponentGroup definition, then simply use that ComponentGroupRef inside of a DirectoryRef structure.</p> <p>I hope this clears it up. I currently must do:</p> <pre><code>&lt;DirectoryRef Id="FilesDir"&gt; &lt;Component Id="a.txt" Guid="YOUR-GUID"&gt; &lt;File Id="a.txt" KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\a.txt" /&gt; &lt;/Component&gt; &lt;Component Id="b.txt" Guid="YOUR-GUID"&gt; &lt;File Id="b.txt" KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\b.txt" /&gt; &lt;/Component&gt; ... &lt;Component Id="z.txt" Guid="YOUR-GUID"&gt; &lt;File Id="z.txt" KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\z.txt" /&gt; &lt;/Component&gt; &lt;/DirectoryRef&gt; &lt;ComponentGroup Id="FilesGroup"&gt; &lt;ComponentRef Id="a.txt"&gt; &lt;ComponentRef Id="b.txt"&gt; ... &lt;ComponentRef Id="z.txt"&gt; &lt;/ComponentGroup&gt; </code></pre> <p>I have to list every file twice. That stinks. </p> <p>I'd like to be able to do:</p> <pre><code>&lt;ComponentGroup Id="FilesGroup"&gt; &lt;Component Id="a.txt" Guid="YOUR-GUID"&gt; &lt;File Id="a.txt" KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\a.txt" /&gt; &lt;/Component&gt; &lt;Component Id="b.txt" Guid="YOUR-GUID"&gt; &lt;File Id="b.txt" KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\b.txt" /&gt; &lt;/Component&gt; ... &lt;Component Id="z.txt" Guid="YOUR-GUID"&gt; &lt;File Id="z.txt" KeyPath="yes" Source="SourceDir\z.txt" /&gt; &lt;/Component&gt; &lt;/ComponentGroup&gt; &lt;DirectoryRef Id="FilesDir"&gt; &lt;ComponentGroupRef Id="FilesGroup"&gt; &lt;/DirectoryRef&gt; </code></pre> <p>Is that possible? Is there some other way of making this easier that I'm just not seeing?</p> <p>Update: We abandoned Wix, and therefore I'm not sure if I should mark a solution or not. If someone feels one of the answers below IS the answer to my now-rather-old question, please let me know, and I'll mark the appropriate answer as such.</p>
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