Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

2008-06-24 Thread Neil Enns
I'll see if I can add a topic about this somewhere on my next doc refresh to 
help make it easier to find. Thanks for the feedback!

Neil


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Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:30 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

Thanks. I'm sure it's in there somewhere, but MSBuild is not Visual Studio -
it's part of .Net (oddly IMHO). And if you search the index for MSBuild
you'll find nothing at all, but if you search for it you will find the
link. I'm not saying that it isn't there, but I do think it's very easy to
miss.

Once I get my installer released, and once I feel I know enough to be
helpful to others (and this thread proves I'm not really there yet) I may
stop whining and start contributing this project. :-)

-Chris

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Neil Enns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 You can use it stand-alone, but it's also part of the Votive stuff that's
 significantly reworked in WiX v3. Assuming you installed WiX v3 on a machine
 that has VS on it you should be able to do File  New Project... and then
 pick WiX from the left nodes and create a new WiX project.

 This is in the WiX.chm file :) When you run the chm click on Using WiX in
 Visual Studio in the first page that shows up. There's 6 topics on it.

 Neil

 
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mumford [
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:52 PM
  To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
 Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

 Well in part because these have evolved for a while and I've been using
 them
 for at least three years - possibly before wix.targets became part of the
 product? And in part because I had no idea they were there :-/

 I'm really glad you pointed this out, but it got me wondering (again) how I
 missed this??? Apparently this is part of Visual Studio 2008 and/or .Net
 3.5. Man it sure would be nice to have this at least referenced in WiX.chm
 or the web site or did I just miss it?

 Well anyhow, thanks for pointing this out.

 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Neil Enns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

  Chris,
 
  I'm curious, why do you use this approach instead of the shipping
  wix.targets build process that comes with WiX?
 
  Neil
 
  
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mumford [
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:04 PM
  To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
  Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development
 
  You don't want to call MSBuild *from* WiX. Instead you want to mave
 MSBuild
  call WiX. Attached is my MSBuild project file that calls candle.exe and
  light.exe to build an MSI file.
 
  You can see that I have the path to the WiX bin folder hard-coded (and my
  machine is x64). So as an improvement you could use the MSBuild Community
  Tasks (http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/) to read the registry (via
  RegistryRead) to dynamically determine the install location of WiX.
 
  Hope this helps.
 
  -Chris
 
  On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Krishnan Senthilraj 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   Hi,
  
   I am new to Wix and MSBuild area. I have one fundamental quention.
  
   I completed all the building of my application in MSBuild. Now I am
  writing
   Wix construction. I was under impressing we can call the MSBuild
 project
   inside Wix.
  
   I am trying examples for this. But unfortunately I didn't get that. So
 I
   would like to confirm with this group that *Is it possible and workable
   solution to call the MSBuild project inside the Wix?*
  
   If answer is yes then please give some links/direction to acheive the
  same.
  
   Cheers
   Senthilraj
  
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Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

2008-06-19 Thread Chris Mumford
Thanks. I'm sure it's in there somewhere, but MSBuild is not Visual Studio -
it's part of .Net (oddly IMHO). And if you search the index for MSBuild
you'll find nothing at all, but if you search for it you will find the
link. I'm not saying that it isn't there, but I do think it's very easy to
miss.

Once I get my installer released, and once I feel I know enough to be
helpful to others (and this thread proves I'm not really there yet) I may
stop whining and start contributing this project. :-)

-Chris

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Neil Enns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 You can use it stand-alone, but it's also part of the Votive stuff that's
 significantly reworked in WiX v3. Assuming you installed WiX v3 on a machine
 that has VS on it you should be able to do File  New Project... and then
 pick WiX from the left nodes and create a new WiX project.

 This is in the WiX.chm file :) When you run the chm click on Using WiX in
 Visual Studio in the first page that shows up. There's 6 topics on it.

 Neil

 
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mumford [
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:52 PM
  To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
 Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

 Well in part because these have evolved for a while and I've been using
 them
 for at least three years - possibly before wix.targets became part of the
 product? And in part because I had no idea they were there :-/

 I'm really glad you pointed this out, but it got me wondering (again) how I
 missed this??? Apparently this is part of Visual Studio 2008 and/or .Net
 3.5. Man it sure would be nice to have this at least referenced in WiX.chm
 or the web site or did I just miss it?

 Well anyhow, thanks for pointing this out.

 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Neil Enns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

  Chris,
 
  I'm curious, why do you use this approach instead of the shipping
  wix.targets build process that comes with WiX?
 
  Neil
 
  
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mumford [
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:04 PM
  To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
  Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development
 
  You don't want to call MSBuild *from* WiX. Instead you want to mave
 MSBuild
  call WiX. Attached is my MSBuild project file that calls candle.exe and
  light.exe to build an MSI file.
 
  You can see that I have the path to the WiX bin folder hard-coded (and my
  machine is x64). So as an improvement you could use the MSBuild Community
  Tasks (http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/) to read the registry (via
  RegistryRead) to dynamically determine the install location of WiX.
 
  Hope this helps.
 
  -Chris
 
  On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Krishnan Senthilraj 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   Hi,
  
   I am new to Wix and MSBuild area. I have one fundamental quention.
  
   I completed all the building of my application in MSBuild. Now I am
  writing
   Wix construction. I was under impressing we can call the MSBuild
 project
   inside Wix.
  
   I am trying examples for this. But unfortunately I didn't get that. So
 I
   would like to confirm with this group that *Is it possible and workable
   solution to call the MSBuild project inside the Wix?*
  
   If answer is yes then please give some links/direction to acheive the
  same.
  
   Cheers
   Senthilraj
  
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Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

2008-06-18 Thread Krishnan Senthilraj
May be I am not getting.. Please guide me .. Given below is my situation..


   - We have completed MSBuild based batch files to complete the number of
   task to build developer assemblies, Build biztalk assemblies, Deploying
   Biztalk assemblies inside the Biztalk server.
   - Now we want to package all these MSBuild based stuff into Wix package
   to acheive the same functionality inside the Wix.
   - I am assuming Inside the Wix I can call the Cmd..
   BuildDevAssmblies.bat .  something like this so that it will call the batch
   file so that all the MSBuild functionality acheived inside the Wix.
   - When I am trying to call the Custom Action Command prompt inside the
   Wix it is not working..
   -

Am I missing something very obivous.. ??

Is my approach is correct ??

Can I get more guidance to complete my  task.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers
Raj
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Chris Mumford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 You don't want to call MSBuild *from* WiX. Instead you want to mave MSBuild
 call WiX. Attached is my MSBuild project file that calls candle.exe and
 light.exe to build an MSI file.

 You can see that I have the path to the WiX bin folder hard-coded (and my
 machine is x64). So as an improvement you could use the MSBuild Community
 Tasks (http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/) to read the registry (via
 RegistryRead) to dynamically determine the install location of WiX.

 Hope this helps.

 -Chris

 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Krishnan Senthilraj 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Hi,
 
  I am new to Wix and MSBuild area. I have one fundamental quention.
 
  I completed all the building of my application in MSBuild. Now I am
 writing
  Wix construction. I was under impressing we can call the MSBuild project
  inside Wix.
 
  I am trying examples for this. But unfortunately I didn't get that. So I
  would like to confirm with this group that *Is it possible and workable
  solution to call the MSBuild project inside the Wix?*
 
  If answer is yes then please give some links/direction to acheive the
 same.
 
  Cheers
  Senthilraj
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Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

2008-06-18 Thread Elipse Software
Thank you very much Chris, that helped a lot.

I have been successfully using MSBuild to build the installers, but your 
solution is cleaner.

Best regards,
Mello

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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

You don't want to call MSBuild *from* WiX. Instead you want to mave MSBuild 
call WiX. Attached is my MSBuild project file that calls candle.exe and 
light.exe to build an MSI file.

You can see that I have the path to the WiX bin folder hard-coded (and my 
machine is x64). So as an improvement you could use the MSBuild Community Tasks 
(http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/) to read the registry (via
RegistryRead) to dynamically determine the install location of WiX.

Hope this helps.

-Chris

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Krishnan Senthilraj  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,

 I am new to Wix and MSBuild area. I have one fundamental quention.

 I completed all the building of my application in MSBuild. Now I am 
 writing Wix construction. I was under impressing we can call the 
 MSBuild project inside Wix.

 I am trying examples for this. But unfortunately I didn't get that. So 
 I would like to confirm with this group that *Is it possible and 
 workable solution to call the MSBuild project inside the Wix?*

 If answer is yes then please give some links/direction to acheive the same.

 Cheers
 Senthilraj
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Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Mumford
Well in part because these have evolved for a while and I've been using them
for at least three years - possibly before wix.targets became part of the
product? And in part because I had no idea they were there :-/

I'm really glad you pointed this out, but it got me wondering (again) how I
missed this??? Apparently this is part of Visual Studio 2008 and/or .Net
3.5. Man it sure would be nice to have this at least referenced in WiX.chm
or the web site or did I just miss it?

Well anyhow, thanks for pointing this out.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Neil Enns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Chris,

 I'm curious, why do you use this approach instead of the shipping
 wix.targets build process that comes with WiX?

 Neil

 
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mumford [
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:04 PM
 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
 Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

 You don't want to call MSBuild *from* WiX. Instead you want to mave MSBuild
 call WiX. Attached is my MSBuild project file that calls candle.exe and
 light.exe to build an MSI file.

 You can see that I have the path to the WiX bin folder hard-coded (and my
 machine is x64). So as an improvement you could use the MSBuild Community
 Tasks (http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/) to read the registry (via
 RegistryRead) to dynamically determine the install location of WiX.

 Hope this helps.

 -Chris

 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Krishnan Senthilraj 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Hi,
 
  I am new to Wix and MSBuild area. I have one fundamental quention.
 
  I completed all the building of my application in MSBuild. Now I am
 writing
  Wix construction. I was under impressing we can call the MSBuild project
  inside Wix.
 
  I am trying examples for this. But unfortunately I didn't get that. So I
  would like to confirm with this group that *Is it possible and workable
  solution to call the MSBuild project inside the Wix?*
 
  If answer is yes then please give some links/direction to acheive the
 same.
 
  Cheers
  Senthilraj
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Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

2008-06-18 Thread Neil Enns
You can use it stand-alone, but it's also part of the Votive stuff that's 
significantly reworked in WiX v3. Assuming you installed WiX v3 on a machine 
that has VS on it you should be able to do File  New Project... and then pick 
WiX from the left nodes and create a new WiX project.

This is in the WiX.chm file :) When you run the chm click on Using WiX in 
Visual Studio in the first page that shows up. There's 6 topics on it.

Neil


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mumford [EMAIL 
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Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:52 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

Well in part because these have evolved for a while and I've been using them
for at least three years - possibly before wix.targets became part of the
product? And in part because I had no idea they were there :-/

I'm really glad you pointed this out, but it got me wondering (again) how I
missed this??? Apparently this is part of Visual Studio 2008 and/or .Net
3.5. Man it sure would be nice to have this at least referenced in WiX.chm
or the web site or did I just miss it?

Well anyhow, thanks for pointing this out.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Neil Enns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Chris,

 I'm curious, why do you use this approach instead of the shipping
 wix.targets build process that comes with WiX?

 Neil

 
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mumford [
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:04 PM
 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
 Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

 You don't want to call MSBuild *from* WiX. Instead you want to mave MSBuild
 call WiX. Attached is my MSBuild project file that calls candle.exe and
 light.exe to build an MSI file.

 You can see that I have the path to the WiX bin folder hard-coded (and my
 machine is x64). So as an improvement you could use the MSBuild Community
 Tasks (http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/) to read the registry (via
 RegistryRead) to dynamically determine the install location of WiX.

 Hope this helps.

 -Chris

 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Krishnan Senthilraj 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Hi,
 
  I am new to Wix and MSBuild area. I have one fundamental quention.
 
  I completed all the building of my application in MSBuild. Now I am
 writing
  Wix construction. I was under impressing we can call the MSBuild project
  inside Wix.
 
  I am trying examples for this. But unfortunately I didn't get that. So I
  would like to confirm with this group that *Is it possible and workable
  solution to call the MSBuild project inside the Wix?*
 
  If answer is yes then please give some links/direction to acheive the
 same.
 
  Cheers
  Senthilraj
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[WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

2008-06-17 Thread Krishnan Senthilraj
Hi,

I am new to Wix and MSBuild area. I have one fundamental quention.

I completed all the building of my application in MSBuild. Now I am writing
Wix construction. I was under impressing we can call the MSBuild project
inside Wix.

I am trying examples for this. But unfortunately I didn't get that. So I
would like to confirm with this group that *Is it possible and workable
solution to call the MSBuild project inside the Wix?*

If answer is yes then please give some links/direction to acheive the same.

Cheers
Senthilraj
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Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

2008-06-17 Thread Chris Mumford
You don't want to call MSBuild *from* WiX. Instead you want to mave MSBuild
call WiX. Attached is my MSBuild project file that calls candle.exe and
light.exe to build an MSI file.

You can see that I have the path to the WiX bin folder hard-coded (and my
machine is x64). So as an improvement you could use the MSBuild Community
Tasks (http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/) to read the registry (via
RegistryRead) to dynamically determine the install location of WiX.

Hope this helps.

-Chris

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Krishnan Senthilraj 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,

 I am new to Wix and MSBuild area. I have one fundamental quention.

 I completed all the building of my application in MSBuild. Now I am writing
 Wix construction. I was under impressing we can call the MSBuild project
 inside Wix.

 I am trying examples for this. But unfortunately I didn't get that. So I
 would like to confirm with this group that *Is it possible and workable
 solution to call the MSBuild project inside the Wix?*

 If answer is yes then please give some links/direction to acheive the same.

 Cheers
 Senthilraj
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Project xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003; 
DefaultTargets=installer

  PropertyGroup
WixDirC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin/WixDir

WixExt-ext WixNetFxExtension -ext WixUIExtension/WixExt

!-- This is overridden by the parent MSBuild file which calls this --
Version1.0.0.0/Version
  /PropertyGroup

  !-- Clean intermediate files --
  Target Name=clean-int-files
Delete Files=VisibleStatement.wixobj;VisibleStatement.wixpdb /
  /Target

  !-- Clean all files --
  Target Name=clean DependsOnTargets=clean-int-files
Delete Files=VisibleStatement.msi /
  /Target

  !-- Build the installer --
  Target Name=installer DependsOnTargets=clean
Exec Command='$(WixDir)\candle.exe $(WixExt) -dVersion=$(Version) 
VisibleStatement.wxs' 
  WorkingDirectory=. Outputs=VisibleStatement.wixobj /
Exec Command='$(WixDir)\light.exe $(WixExt) VisibleStatement.wixobj'
  WorkingDirectory=. Outputs=VisibleStatement.msi /
Delete Files=VisibleStatement.wixobj;VisibleStatement.wixpdb /

!-- Sign the installer package. --
Exec Command=signtool.exe sign /v /f ..\Greenidea.pfx /p 
PleaseSignMeChris /t http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll 
VisibleStatement.msi /

  /Target

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Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

2008-06-17 Thread Neil Enns
Chris,

I'm curious, why do you use this approach instead of the shipping wix.targets 
build process that comes with WiX?

Neil


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mumford [EMAIL 
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild inside Wix development

You don't want to call MSBuild *from* WiX. Instead you want to mave MSBuild
call WiX. Attached is my MSBuild project file that calls candle.exe and
light.exe to build an MSI file.

You can see that I have the path to the WiX bin folder hard-coded (and my
machine is x64). So as an improvement you could use the MSBuild Community
Tasks (http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/) to read the registry (via
RegistryRead) to dynamically determine the install location of WiX.

Hope this helps.

-Chris

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Krishnan Senthilraj 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,

 I am new to Wix and MSBuild area. I have one fundamental quention.

 I completed all the building of my application in MSBuild. Now I am writing
 Wix construction. I was under impressing we can call the MSBuild project
 inside Wix.

 I am trying examples for this. But unfortunately I didn't get that. So I
 would like to confirm with this group that *Is it possible and workable
 solution to call the MSBuild project inside the Wix?*

 If answer is yes then please give some links/direction to acheive the same.

 Cheers
 Senthilraj
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