WiX company folder not created

Question

I have this fragment to define my directory structure:

<Fragment>
 <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
   <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
     <Directory Id="COMPANYFOLDER" Name="MyCompany">
       <Directory Id="APPLICATIONFOLDER" Name="HDSS.Net">
         <Directory Id="EN" Name="en"/>
       </Directory>
     </Directory>
   </Directory>
   <Directory Id="DesktopFolder" Name="Desktop"/>
 </Directory>
</Fragment>

I have this component group with my application components:

<Fragment>
  <ComponentGroup Id="ProductComponents" Directory="APPLICATIONFOLDER">
  ....
  </ComponentGroup>
</Fragment>

in my feature definition I refer to this group:

<Feature Id="ProductFeature" Title="HDSS.Net" Level="1" ConfigurableDirectory="APPLICATIONFOLDER">
  <ComponentGroupRef Id="ProductComponents" />
  ...
<\Feature>

My problem is that upon installation only the application folder 'HDSS.Net' is created in Program Files and the application folder is not created inside of the 'MyCompany' folder as I would have expected. How can I ensure that this happens?

Thank you.

Answer 1

The setup code you provided thus far looks correct.

Some other part of your installation must be changing APPLICATIONFOLDER so that it ends up resolving to [ProgramFilesFolder]HDSS.Net. Search around for other references to APPLICATIONFOLDER.

Alternatively, take a look at a verbose log file. It should show you when APPLICATIONFOLDER is being overridden.