How to extend existing WiX projects in VS2008

Question

Hi,

I have to extend a existing VS2008 project which includes many separate WiX 3.0 projects.
My concern is:

I would like to extend some of the VS-projects and make minor changes in the classes by overwriting them. Can I also extend the existing WiX project by inheritance?
I ask this because the existing WiX project is very large and complicated. So I want to make a WiX-project with only my modifications as easy as possible.

Help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

John

Answer 1

Wix doesn't know about the classes in your project. It only knows which files (and some other things like registry entries and shortcuts) that need to be installed.

So unless you are going to add new libraries to the project you should not have to make any changes to the wix files.