Question

I’m trying to create an installer that install’s several discrete applications.
I would like to be about to create something like a variable, so i can use absolute paths

For something like the utilities library instead of typing c:\Users\me\Documents\VS2012\Projects\Foo\Bar\bin\Release\Util.dll

i would like to create a directory variable and type something like

[FooBarRelease]\Util.dll
Is that doable?

Answer 1

here is a little about variables creation in wix:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/preprocessor.htm

what you need according to your example is described here:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/votive_project_references.htm

check out $(var.MyProject.TargetName)