Harvesting Technology Comparisons

There are a few options for harvesting files in the WiX Toolset. The following table compares the capabilities of each.

Feature	Advanced Harvesting	heat.exe	Files element
Include files in .wxs code
Exclude files		1
Simplified single-file harvesting
ProjectReference harvesting
ProjectReference OutputGroup filtering		1
Capture DLL/OCX self-registration	x86, x64, arm64	x86 only
Capture .NET assembly self-registration
Capture TypeLib self-registration
Capture EXE self-registration
Capture Font registration
Optimized harvesting strategies

Notes

1. Requires use of an XSLT file to filter out files to exclude.