Separating a portion of WIX markup into its own library
As a project grows in complexity and size, we may end up with different teams building different parts of the software in relative isolation. Each team may want to control how their module will be installed or, during development, install only the modules that their code depends upon into their dev environment. To handle these scenarios, we can split our installer into chunks of WiX code called setup libraries.
A setup library can be compiled independently and plugged into the main, monolithic setup project later. We can also include the library in a team-owned setup project that only contains the modules required by the team. In essence, we can mix and match libraries wherever we need them ...
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