How to include fragments in Wix?

Question

I have created a wixlib to share fragments in some wix projects.
I can reference fragments which have Property in my main wix file with a PropertyRef, but how can I refe

Answer 1

That's an interesting question! The tutorial says that anything that can be delegated into a fragment has its variant tag: FeatureRef for Feature, PropertyRef for Property, etc. However, the contents of the fragment in your question doesn't issue any errors and the project builds fine.

I don't know whether it is intentional of not, the Fragment element itself doesn't have a ref brother FragmentRef. For some reason the Fragment element has an optional Id attribute, but it is indicated to be set by advanced users to tag sections. I don't know what it means...

But, it seems you can cheat here. :-) Add a fake ComponentGroup element to your Fragment, which doesn't contain any real Components:

Now, you can reference that ComponentGroup in your main Product.wxs, and the contents of the entire Fragment will be included as promised by the manual:

As long as ComponentGroup doesn't has any meaning to the MSI itself, it doesn't bring garbage to the MSI package. But it pollutes the source code, of course...