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What is the difference between Media and MediaTemplate in WIX?

Is there are manual cabinet file's preparing VS automatic cabinet file's creation during building wix project?

Or may be this is something else ?

Solution

  • MediaTemplate replaced Media and is available starting in WiX 3.8. Take a read at:

    WiX and cabinetry

    Basically the Media element took a lot of code to describe what to do when you had more then 1 CAB file. The MediaTemplate element is syntactical sugar that reduces this to one line.

    Many smaller installers with just 1 CAB won't care one way or the other. But when you start to build large MSIs it'll help.