WiX Cookbook

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, and user input are shown as follows: "Behind the scenes, WiX introduces a new project type that has a .wixproj file extension."

A block of code is set as follows:

<ComponentGroup Id="SampleComponentGroup" 
                Directory="SampleComponentsDirectory">
  <Component Id="cmpSampleTextFileTXT" 
             Guid="{5382BC02-4484-4C9B-8734-A99D20632EA9}">
    <File Source="SampleTextFile.txt" />
  </Component>
</ComponentGroup>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part ...