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Setting Wildcard Groups
Windows Installer Editor Reference
Never scan solution
If you select this, you must add new files to installations manually using the
Files page. Also, when files are removed from a solution, you must remove
them from the installations manually.
Prompt only when new files are detected
Select this to be prompted each time there are new files in the solution that
need to be added to the installation. The prompt appears during save, build, or
compile.
Prompt when any files are detected
This is the highest level of prompting. Like the previous option, the prompt
appears during save, build, or compile when there are new files. Also, if you
previously excluded files by clearing their check boxes, you'll be prompted to
confirm that those files should be excluded.
Always scan solution
Each time Windows Installer Editor scans a solution, it adds new files to the
installation and deletes files that have been removed from the solution.
Bind installed files to the solution build configuration
Mark this to set the default for new projects you create. This option causes the
installation source paths to change automatically when you change a project's build
configuration. To change this option for an existing project, right-click a project
name in Solution Explorer, and select Properties.
Main Project Options
To override these defaults for individual installations, or to change them for existing
installations, edit the Main Project page of the installation project settings.
See
Main Project Page
on page 81.
Automatically Update Product Information
Mark this to update the installation's product name, version, and manufacturer
whenever you rebuild the solution or whenever the version number of the main
target file changes.
Create Shortcut
Mark this to add a shortcut for the main target file to each installation.
See also:
Setting Options
on page 34
On the Wildcard Groups tab, you can create groups of wildcards so you don't have to
type multiple wildcards repeatedly.
On the Files page in Installation Expert, you use the wildcard groups when you add
directory contents. Wildcard groups on the Wildcard Groups tab appear in the Include
Wildcards list on the Add Contents and Wildcard Details dialog boxes. Select a wildcard
group to add just a subset of the files in the directory whose contents you are adding.
Several wildcard groups are predefined, which you can edit. If you delete them, they are
recreated when the application starts. Also, wildcards that you enter in any Include
Wildcards field are added to the list of wildcard groups.
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