The Wix toolset (v.3) has a tool called heat.exe for "harvesting" files in a particular location and generating a .wxs file which specifies the files which will be part of an installer package.
Our current Wix code uses heat to harvest our application files, but now I am trying to set this up in a Visual Studio project for the installer, which uses the Wix v3 Visual Studio 2022 extension.
How do I get heat working in in conjunction with a Visual Studio project? Does that even make sense?
Or should I simply run heat once, manually, and then include the generated .wxs in the project as a source file?