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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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How can I exclude files from being harvested with heat (WiX 3.5)?

I would like to harvest a folder with a lot of files by using heat.exe. But instead of harvesting all files, I would like to exclude specific file extensions like "*.txt" or something like that. How can I do this?
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How to exclude files in Wix toolset

While harvesting files for heat.exe, I would like to exclude the files with the extension .exe from the input folder since it fetches all the files in the folder at first place. Below is my code. %WIX_PATH%\Heat.exe" dir "%input_folder%" -cg…
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heat generated files are not able to find SourceDir directory

I am running heat to generate a wxs file. The code are as follows. I want to add all the files from dir.prompts to the wxs file in the installer. And I added this to be a part of the automated build process ( so that I cant modify the wxs file once…
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wix HeatDirectory ServiceInstall

I'm using HeatDirectory to create source .wxs file. In the pickup directory there is an exe which should be installed as service. Actually I know how to install service if I create component myself, but I don't know how to include ServiceInstall in…
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Ignoring .svn directories with Wix Heat?

I'm using the Heat tool to generate Wix markup to include a large number of files and folders in my setup. This was working fine, but I just realized that since I added the source folder to my Subversion repository, Heat wants to include the .svn…
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Get error HEAT5150 with x64 dll

I get this error when I have a x64 dll in the folder that I try to harvest heat.exe : error HEAT5150: Could not harvest data from a file that was expected to be a SelfReg DLL: C:\Users\ama\Documents\Projekt\FreePIE\Output\sixense_fak…
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WIX 3.6 Installer - Visual Studio 2010 (HeatDirectory)

I'm working on a WIX 3.6 Installer for a web service. But I've run into an issue when attempting to use a HeatDirectory to harvest all of the necessary output and no matter what I try I get the following error for every harvested file: The system…
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WiX Heat: Pre-build event fires too early on build server

I'm harvesting a directory for my Visual Studio solution. It works on my local system so far probably because the project build order is being respected. When I run the installer on a build server it finds the right directory but it has not been…
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Creating a continuous heat map in R

I have a series of x and y coordinates that each have a distance attached to them. I would like to create a heat map that displays the average distance for every point within the x and y ranges as a heat map. Since the points are not spaced evenly…
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registering com dll in wix

If not self registering. then how do we perform the COM dll registering while installation using WIX? As per the tutorial, I used ComPlusApplication example (non .net dll). But its not working. It fails to register. I can register using regsvr32…
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How to put black borders in heatmap in R

Hi I created a heatmap in R using "heatmap.plus" which is shown in the link http://i.stack.imgur.com/hizBf.jpg but I need the heat map to look like the heatmap shown in below link which was created from some other GUI…
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gnuplot heat map color range

I have some X Y Z data in a file and I'm using gnuplot to display it. I am creating a heat map, ie. a 2D plot where the Z value is presented using color. Right now I'm using the following script: set palette defined (0 "blue", 1 "red") plot…
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How can I exclude SVN files from harvesting with heat (WiX)?

I hate to practically duplicate existing questions, but the supplied answers haven't worked: Here's what my .wxs looks like:
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Harvesting a .csproj with heat.exe in Visual Studio 2008 and WiX(v3)

I found that Wix v3 uses a tool (heat.exe) to "harvest" information into WiX fragments. Either I am looking in the wrong location, or this is thinly documented. What is the best way to auto-generate a WiX fragment (likely using heat.exe) for a…
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Wix Directory Problems

I have two questions about the directories with using fragments in Windows Installer XML. I got this fragment file from the heat.exe: …
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