Include all files from a folder in MSI

Question

How can I to include all files from source folder and deploy them into a target folder during installation. I have multiple images in a folder and i want all of them to be included in msi automatically rather than including all of them separately using <File> element.

Answer 1

You need to Read about HEAT in the wix installer tutorial, http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/

"%WIX%\bin\heat.exe" dir "$(SolutionDir)bin\Release -out Release.wxs"

this is the type of pre-build event you will need to define in order to harvest a directory.