Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008?
Sorry for the delayed response. Yes, the project reference variables were added back to Votive 3, so they should work just fine for you now. Justin -Original Message- From: Chris Bardon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 6:54 AM To: Justin Rockwood; WiX Users Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? OK, I just installed the latest release, and everything seems to be working fine-thanks Justin! I saw a reference to it in the history, but were the variable defines added back to Votive (something like var.Project.TargetDir)? I know these worked in 2, but not in 3. Chris -Original Message- From: Justin Rockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:45 PM To: Chris Bardon; WiX Users Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? Yes, it works side by side just fine (or at least it's supposed to :-). You should see an option on whether you want to install it to VS 2005, VS 2008, or both. The installation detects what versions of Visual Studio you have installed and presents the options appropriately (so if you only have 2008 installed you won't see the option for 2005). Thanks, Justin -Original Message- From: Chris Bardon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 12:40 PM To: Justin Rockwood; WiX Users Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? No, I'd grabbed the latest from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970package_id= 16, which is a whole lot more out of date. I've give the new build a try. Did you happen to try it on a side by side with 2005 and 2008? If not, I'll let you know how it works. -Original Message- From: Justin Rockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:02 PM To: Chris Bardon; WiX Users Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? Have you picked up the most recent version on http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases (Votive 3, not 2)? Aaron has already done the work to get Votive to work with VS 2008 Beta 2 and I hear that it works on RTM as well. We're actually finishing up a change that will use the RTM bits as well, but I think you should be fine with what we already have. Thanks, Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bardon Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 7:51 AM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? I did try reinstalling with the latest 3.0 setup from sourceforge, and 2008 still doesn't recognize the wixproj projects. I took a look at the votive setup though, and it looks like it's just a matter of a few registry settings that'll have to be duplicated. I'd rather not remove VS 2005 at the moment, but I might give it a shot in virtual PC if I can't get the registry change fix to work. All of the wix binaries are there, I just need to make sure that VS2008 can recognize the project types, XML schemas, etc. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:24 PM To: Chris Bardon Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Chris Bardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using 3.0. [...] On Rob Mensching's blog, he stated that the community technology preview for the next release of VS.NET is incorporating WiX 3.0, so I'd expect that WiX 3.0 would work well with VS.NET 2008. However, I try not to install two editions of VS.NET on one box at the same time. If you have a spare machine try installing VS.NET 2008 on that machine along with WiX 3.0/Votive and see if that works. If it does then you know its an issue with installing things side-by-side and not a basic compatability problem. -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008?
OK, I just installed the latest release, and everything seems to be working fine-thanks Justin! I saw a reference to it in the history, but were the variable defines added back to Votive (something like var.Project.TargetDir)? I know these worked in 2, but not in 3. Chris -Original Message- From: Justin Rockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:45 PM To: Chris Bardon; WiX Users Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? Yes, it works side by side just fine (or at least it's supposed to :-). You should see an option on whether you want to install it to VS 2005, VS 2008, or both. The installation detects what versions of Visual Studio you have installed and presents the options appropriately (so if you only have 2008 installed you won't see the option for 2005). Thanks, Justin -Original Message- From: Chris Bardon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 12:40 PM To: Justin Rockwood; WiX Users Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? No, I'd grabbed the latest from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970package_id= 16, which is a whole lot more out of date. I've give the new build a try. Did you happen to try it on a side by side with 2005 and 2008? If not, I'll let you know how it works. -Original Message- From: Justin Rockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:02 PM To: Chris Bardon; WiX Users Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? Have you picked up the most recent version on http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases (Votive 3, not 2)? Aaron has already done the work to get Votive to work with VS 2008 Beta 2 and I hear that it works on RTM as well. We're actually finishing up a change that will use the RTM bits as well, but I think you should be fine with what we already have. Thanks, Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bardon Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 7:51 AM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? I did try reinstalling with the latest 3.0 setup from sourceforge, and 2008 still doesn't recognize the wixproj projects. I took a look at the votive setup though, and it looks like it's just a matter of a few registry settings that'll have to be duplicated. I'd rather not remove VS 2005 at the moment, but I might give it a shot in virtual PC if I can't get the registry change fix to work. All of the wix binaries are there, I just need to make sure that VS2008 can recognize the project types, XML schemas, etc. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:24 PM To: Chris Bardon Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Chris Bardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using 3.0. [...] On Rob Mensching's blog, he stated that the community technology preview for the next release of VS.NET is incorporating WiX 3.0, so I'd expect that WiX 3.0 would work well with VS.NET 2008. However, I try not to install two editions of VS.NET on one box at the same time. If you have a spare machine try installing VS.NET 2008 on that machine along with WiX 3.0/Votive and see if that works. If it does then you know its an issue with installing things side-by-side and not a basic compatability problem. -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008?
I did try reinstalling with the latest 3.0 setup from sourceforge, and 2008 still doesn't recognize the wixproj projects. I took a look at the votive setup though, and it looks like it's just a matter of a few registry settings that'll have to be duplicated. I'd rather not remove VS 2005 at the moment, but I might give it a shot in virtual PC if I can't get the registry change fix to work. All of the wix binaries are there, I just need to make sure that VS2008 can recognize the project types, XML schemas, etc. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:24 PM To: Chris Bardon Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Chris Bardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using 3.0. [...] On Rob Mensching's blog, he stated that the community technology preview for the next release of VS.NET is incorporating WiX 3.0, so I'd expect that WiX 3.0 would work well with VS.NET 2008. However, I try not to install two editions of VS.NET on one box at the same time. If you have a spare machine try installing VS.NET 2008 on that machine along with WiX 3.0/Votive and see if that works. If it does then you know its an issue with installing things side-by-side and not a basic compatability problem. -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008?
Have you picked up the most recent version on http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases (Votive 3, not 2)? Aaron has already done the work to get Votive to work with VS 2008 Beta 2 and I hear that it works on RTM as well. We're actually finishing up a change that will use the RTM bits as well, but I think you should be fine with what we already have. Thanks, Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bardon Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 7:51 AM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? I did try reinstalling with the latest 3.0 setup from sourceforge, and 2008 still doesn't recognize the wixproj projects. I took a look at the votive setup though, and it looks like it's just a matter of a few registry settings that'll have to be duplicated. I'd rather not remove VS 2005 at the moment, but I might give it a shot in virtual PC if I can't get the registry change fix to work. All of the wix binaries are there, I just need to make sure that VS2008 can recognize the project types, XML schemas, etc. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:24 PM To: Chris Bardon Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Chris Bardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using 3.0. [...] On Rob Mensching's blog, he stated that the community technology preview for the next release of VS.NET is incorporating WiX 3.0, so I'd expect that WiX 3.0 would work well with VS.NET 2008. However, I try not to install two editions of VS.NET on one box at the same time. If you have a spare machine try installing VS.NET 2008 on that machine along with WiX 3.0/Votive and see if that works. If it does then you know its an issue with installing things side-by-side and not a basic compatability problem. -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Bardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did try reinstalling with the latest 3.0 setup from sourceforge, and 2008 still doesn't recognize the wixproj projects. OK, sounds like Votive hasn't been updated to recognize the right registry entries then. Have you poked around the source tree to see if someone might have committed a fix but not yet released it as a package? If not, I'm sure they'd be willing to accept a change from you to support 2008 if you're willing :-). -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008?
Yes, it works side by side just fine (or at least it's supposed to :-). You should see an option on whether you want to install it to VS 2005, VS 2008, or both. The installation detects what versions of Visual Studio you have installed and presents the options appropriately (so if you only have 2008 installed you won't see the option for 2005). Thanks, Justin -Original Message- From: Chris Bardon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 12:40 PM To: Justin Rockwood; WiX Users Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? No, I'd grabbed the latest from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970package_id= 16, which is a whole lot more out of date. I've give the new build a try. Did you happen to try it on a side by side with 2005 and 2008? If not, I'll let you know how it works. -Original Message- From: Justin Rockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:02 PM To: Chris Bardon; WiX Users Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? Have you picked up the most recent version on http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases (Votive 3, not 2)? Aaron has already done the work to get Votive to work with VS 2008 Beta 2 and I hear that it works on RTM as well. We're actually finishing up a change that will use the RTM bits as well, but I think you should be fine with what we already have. Thanks, Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bardon Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 7:51 AM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? I did try reinstalling with the latest 3.0 setup from sourceforge, and 2008 still doesn't recognize the wixproj projects. I took a look at the votive setup though, and it looks like it's just a matter of a few registry settings that'll have to be duplicated. I'd rather not remove VS 2005 at the moment, but I might give it a shot in virtual PC if I can't get the registry change fix to work. All of the wix binaries are there, I just need to make sure that VS2008 can recognize the project types, XML schemas, etc. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:24 PM To: Chris Bardon Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Chris Bardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using 3.0. [...] On Rob Mensching's blog, he stated that the community technology preview for the next release of VS.NET is incorporating WiX 3.0, so I'd expect that WiX 3.0 would work well with VS.NET 2008. However, I try not to install two editions of VS.NET on one box at the same time. If you have a spare machine try installing VS.NET 2008 on that machine along with WiX 3.0/Votive and see if that works. If it does then you know its an issue with installing things side-by-side and not a basic compatability problem. -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008?
No, I'd grabbed the latest from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970package_id= 16, which is a whole lot more out of date. I've give the new build a try. Did you happen to try it on a side by side with 2005 and 2008? If not, I'll let you know how it works. -Original Message- From: Justin Rockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:02 PM To: Chris Bardon; WiX Users Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? Have you picked up the most recent version on http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases (Votive 3, not 2)? Aaron has already done the work to get Votive to work with VS 2008 Beta 2 and I hear that it works on RTM as well. We're actually finishing up a change that will use the RTM bits as well, but I think you should be fine with what we already have. Thanks, Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bardon Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 7:51 AM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? I did try reinstalling with the latest 3.0 setup from sourceforge, and 2008 still doesn't recognize the wixproj projects. I took a look at the votive setup though, and it looks like it's just a matter of a few registry settings that'll have to be duplicated. I'd rather not remove VS 2005 at the moment, but I might give it a shot in virtual PC if I can't get the registry change fix to work. All of the wix binaries are there, I just need to make sure that VS2008 can recognize the project types, XML schemas, etc. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:24 PM To: Chris Bardon Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Chris Bardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using 3.0. [...] On Rob Mensching's blog, he stated that the community technology preview for the next release of VS.NET is incorporating WiX 3.0, so I'd expect that WiX 3.0 would work well with VS.NET 2008. However, I try not to install two editions of VS.NET on one box at the same time. If you have a spare machine try installing VS.NET 2008 on that machine along with WiX 3.0/Votive and see if that works. If it does then you know its an issue with installing things side-by-side and not a basic compatability problem. -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008?
Just out of curiosity, has anyone done a rebuild for the Votive plugin to work with VS 2008? I just installed the RTM this week, and I'm looking to try moving some of my VS2005 projects up. So far, anything that includes a setup won't build. - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Bardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just out of curiosity, has anyone done a rebuild for the Votive plugin to work with VS 2008? I just installed the RTM this week, and I'm looking to try moving some of my VS2005 projects up. So far, anything that includes a setup won't build. =20 Are you trying the 2.0 or the 3.0? -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008?
I'm using 3.0. Note that I didn't just try reinstalling (I have both VS 2005 and 2008 installed on my laptop), since I was worried that might mess up the associations with the 2005 IDE. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:30 PM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive on VS 2008? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Chris Bardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just out of curiosity, has anyone done a rebuild for the Votive plugin to work with VS 2008? I just installed the RTM this week, and I'm looking to try moving some of my VS2005 projects up. So far, anything that includes a setup won't build. =20 Are you trying the 2.0 or the 3.0? -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
