A short follow up. I had assumed this wouldn't work due to past knowledge of
the Visual Studio Express AddOn debate. However a PM from Microsoft emailed me
and it prompted me to just try it out on a VM.
I grabed the TFC install ( which uses the VS 2008 Shell in Integrated Mode )
and sure enough WiX installed into it without any issues. Well, one issue, but
that's to be expected. The WiX Custom Action project types ( C++, C#, VB.Net
)
aren't available because those languages aren't available. My own tool IsWiX
(
CodePlex ) also registered with VS without any issues.
Really cool stuff. These three tools together make a pretty interesting IDE
for
authoring installers. What can I say, I love MSBuild and Votive.
Chris
- Original Message
From: Christopher Painter chr...@deploymentengineering.com
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wed, March 9, 2011 10:42:30 AM
Subject: Votive and Visual Studio Question
I've been doing a lot of work with collaboration and TFS lately and I've been
wondering something. Team Foundation Server Client ( aka TFC aka Team
Explorer
) has an installer that gives you a stock Visual Studio IDE / Shell and
installs
the Team Explorer AddIn. This allows non-developer personas to access the
Team System ( work items / source control / builds / reports and so on )
Is it possible to piggy back off of this and use WiX / Votive? I ask because
in
my collaboration / setup democratization excercises I sometimes come across
contributors who are not developers. These tend to be content producers, tech
writers, and so on. I want to try to leverage the Votive story with these
people also.
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