Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?
Matthew Rowan wrote: > I am also interested in moving to WiX v3 from v2. I already have a > wixproj file I am maintaining for SharpDevelop and would like to move > this into Visual Studio. The only thing I am cautious of is that I > will need to do patch creation and on > http://wix.sourceforge.net/faq.html it has What's New in WiX v3 ... > Patch creation support (soon). Is this still the case, or is patch > creation in WiX v3 possible? WiX v3 is adding the ability to create patches directly (e.g., light.exe producing .msp files). WiX v2 and v3 already support patch creation by creating .pcp files that you pass to MsiMsp/Patchwiz. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?
I am also interested in moving to WiX v3 from v2. I already have a wixproj file I am maintaining for SharpDevelop and would like to move this into Visual Studio. The only thing I am cautious of is that I will need to do patch creation and on http://wix.sourceforge.net/faq.html it has What's New in WiX v3 ... Patch creation support (soon). Is this still the case, or is patch creation in WiX v3 possible? Regards, -Matthew Rowan - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?
Actually, for us, we use a common settings file at the top of the file. In the settings file, we have . This element can be overridden in each project file. If you go to the property pages for a wix project, there is a button on the compiler tab for Advanced Properties, or something like that. Put your semicolon separated list in there. Alternatively, if you like to edit XML by hand, you can right click on any project (for any project type, actually), and select unload project. Once it's greyed out in solution explorer, right click again, and select Edit MyProj.wixproj. It will open in the VS main window, with the XML editor open. From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:00 AM To: Cullen Waters; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? Sorry I'm kind of new to this. Is that the msbuild file for the specific project correct? Is there a way to edit that in VS/TFS? From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:01 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? What I did was set a property called in my MSBuild file. Then, when candle is executed, the WixTasks convert that semicolon separated list of variables into -d= when passed into the candle command line. The only thing you might have to do is change the env. prefix to var., if nant was setting an environment variable for you. From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:58 AM To: Cullen Waters; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? Thanks, I've gotten the wxs files updated, and added them to the projects in TFS. How do you handle the source path for the files being added to the msi? Before I used a nant variable in the wix as part of the path. Is there a similar way to do this using MSBuild? It looks like the path will change based on whether or not it is a debug or release build. From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:54 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I just moved my whole team from v2 to v3. In general, the update went really smoothly. You can use wixcop.exe to update all of the xml for you. Wixcop doesn't, however remove shortnames, which might cause you some headaches. I went through all my xml and manually deleted all the short names. What might cause you some extra work, depending on how you use v2, is that v3 runs msi validation as part of light. We found a bunch of msival errors in our MSIs when we went to v3, and it took some time to work through them. This is a good thing, though, since you have essentially raised the quality bar of your installers by doing this. We use votive with VS Team Suite, and we haven't had any problems yet. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I was thinking of trying out votive. We are using Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers with Team Foundation Server. We are also using WIX v2 for the msi. I was wondering, is Wix v3 stable enough to use if we are deploying our next version of our product in about 3-5 months. Has anyone used votive with team foundation server? Are there any problems to be expected when moving from wix v2 to wix v3? - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?
You can edit that property () in the property pages if you're using Votive. Just right mouse click the project in Solution Explorer and click "Properties." Alternatively, you can edit the .wixproj file directly and add Name=Value;Name2=Value2 within an existing . Make sense? Justin From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:00 AM To: Cullen Waters; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? Sorry I'm kind of new to this. Is that the msbuild file for the specific project correct? Is there a way to edit that in VS/TFS? From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:01 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? What I did was set a property called in my MSBuild file. Then, when candle is executed, the WixTasks convert that semicolon separated list of variables into -d= when passed into the candle command line. The only thing you might have to do is change the env. prefix to var., if nant was setting an environment variable for you. From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:58 AM To: Cullen Waters; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? Thanks, I've gotten the wxs files updated, and added them to the projects in TFS. How do you handle the source path for the files being added to the msi? Before I used a nant variable in the wix as part of the path. Is there a similar way to do this using MSBuild? It looks like the path will change based on whether or not it is a debug or release build. From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:54 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I just moved my whole team from v2 to v3. In general, the update went really smoothly. You can use wixcop.exe to update all of the xml for you. Wixcop doesn't, however remove shortnames, which might cause you some headaches. I went through all my xml and manually deleted all the short names. What might cause you some extra work, depending on how you use v2, is that v3 runs msi validation as part of light. We found a bunch of msival errors in our MSIs when we went to v3, and it took some time to work through them. This is a good thing, though, since you have essentially raised the quality bar of your installers by doing this. We use votive with VS Team Suite, and we haven't had any problems yet. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I was thinking of trying out votive. We are using Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers with Team Foundation Server. We are also using WIX v2 for the msi. I was wondering, is Wix v3 stable enough to use if we are deploying our next version of our product in about 3-5 months. Has anyone used votive with team foundation server? Are there any problems to be expected when moving from wix v2 to wix v3? - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?
Sorry I'm kind of new to this. Is that the msbuild file for the specific project correct? Is there a way to edit that in VS/TFS? From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:01 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? What I did was set a property called in my MSBuild file. Then, when candle is executed, the WixTasks convert that semicolon separated list of variables into -d= when passed into the candle command line. The only thing you might have to do is change the env. prefix to var., if nant was setting an environment variable for you. From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:58 AM To: Cullen Waters; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? Thanks, I've gotten the wxs files updated, and added them to the projects in TFS. How do you handle the source path for the files being added to the msi? Before I used a nant variable in the wix as part of the path. Is there a similar way to do this using MSBuild? It looks like the path will change based on whether or not it is a debug or release build. From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:54 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I just moved my whole team from v2 to v3. In general, the update went really smoothly. You can use wixcop.exe to update all of the xml for you. Wixcop doesn't, however remove shortnames, which might cause you some headaches. I went through all my xml and manually deleted all the short names. What might cause you some extra work, depending on how you use v2, is that v3 runs msi validation as part of light. We found a bunch of msival errors in our MSIs when we went to v3, and it took some time to work through them. This is a good thing, though, since you have essentially raised the quality bar of your installers by doing this. We use votive with VS Team Suite, and we haven't had any problems yet. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I was thinking of trying out votive. We are using Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers with Team Foundation Server. We are also using WIX v2 for the msi. I was wondering, is Wix v3 stable enough to use if we are deploying our next version of our product in about 3-5 months. Has anyone used votive with team foundation server? Are there any problems to be expected when moving from wix v2 to wix v3? - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?
What I did was set a property called in my MSBuild file. Then, when candle is executed, the WixTasks convert that semicolon separated list of variables into -d= when passed into the candle command line. The only thing you might have to do is change the env. prefix to var., if nant was setting an environment variable for you. From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:58 AM To: Cullen Waters; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? Thanks, I've gotten the wxs files updated, and added them to the projects in TFS. How do you handle the source path for the files being added to the msi? Before I used a nant variable in the wix as part of the path. Is there a similar way to do this using MSBuild? It looks like the path will change based on whether or not it is a debug or release build. From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:54 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I just moved my whole team from v2 to v3. In general, the update went really smoothly. You can use wixcop.exe to update all of the xml for you. Wixcop doesn't, however remove shortnames, which might cause you some headaches. I went through all my xml and manually deleted all the short names. What might cause you some extra work, depending on how you use v2, is that v3 runs msi validation as part of light. We found a bunch of msival errors in our MSIs when we went to v3, and it took some time to work through them. This is a good thing, though, since you have essentially raised the quality bar of your installers by doing this. We use votive with VS Team Suite, and we haven't had any problems yet. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I was thinking of trying out votive. We are using Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers with Team Foundation Server. We are also using WIX v2 for the msi. I was wondering, is Wix v3 stable enough to use if we are deploying our next version of our product in about 3-5 months. Has anyone used votive with team foundation server? Are there any problems to be expected when moving from wix v2 to wix v3? - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?
follow this item: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1585281&group_id=105970&atid=642717 ..and until that is fixed, you can probably define the variables yourself appropriately.. Quote Justin: As far as Votive is concerned, you can define the preprocessor variable by entering >"Configuration=$(Configuration)" on the compiler property page (not linker property page). Also, >make sure to put the parenthesis (which you missed in your example below). On 2/7/07, Scott Sam < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, I've gotten the wxs files updated, and added them to the projects in TFS. How do you handle the source path for the files being added to the msi? Before I used a nant variable in the wix as part of the path. Is there a similar way to do this using MSBuild? It looks like the path will change based on whether or not it is a debug or release build. *From:* Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:54 PM *To:* Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I just moved my whole team from v2 to v3. In general, the update went really smoothly. You can use wixcop.exe to update all of the xml for you. Wixcop doesn't, however remove shortnames, which might cause you some headaches. I went through all my xml and manually deleted all the short names. What might cause you some extra work, depending on how you use v2, is that v3 runs msi validation as part of light. We found a bunch of msival errors in our MSIs when we went to v3, and it took some time to work through them. This is a good thing, though, since you have essentially raised the quality bar of your installers by doing this. We use votive with VS Team Suite, and we haven't had any problems yet. *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Scott Sam *Sent:* Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:47 AM *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I was thinking of trying out votive. We are using Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers with Team Foundation Server. We are also using WIX v2 for the msi. I was wondering, is Wix v3 stable enough to use if we are deploying our next version of our product in about 3-5 months. Has anyone used votive with team foundation server? Are there any problems to be expected when moving from wix v2 to wix v3? - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?
Thanks, I've gotten the wxs files updated, and added them to the projects in TFS. How do you handle the source path for the files being added to the msi? Before I used a nant variable in the wix as part of the path. Is there a similar way to do this using MSBuild? It looks like the path will change based on whether or not it is a debug or release build. From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:54 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I just moved my whole team from v2 to v3. In general, the update went really smoothly. You can use wixcop.exe to update all of the xml for you. Wixcop doesn't, however remove shortnames, which might cause you some headaches. I went through all my xml and manually deleted all the short names. What might cause you some extra work, depending on how you use v2, is that v3 runs msi validation as part of light. We found a bunch of msival errors in our MSIs when we went to v3, and it took some time to work through them. This is a good thing, though, since you have essentially raised the quality bar of your installers by doing this. We use votive with VS Team Suite, and we haven't had any problems yet. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I was thinking of trying out votive. We are using Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers with Team Foundation Server. We are also using WIX v2 for the msi. I was wondering, is Wix v3 stable enough to use if we are deploying our next version of our product in about 3-5 months. Has anyone used votive with team foundation server? Are there any problems to be expected when moving from wix v2 to wix v3? - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?
I just moved my whole team from v2 to v3. In general, the update went really smoothly. You can use wixcop.exe to update all of the xml for you. Wixcop doesn't, however remove shortnames, which might cause you some headaches. I went through all my xml and manually deleted all the short names. What might cause you some extra work, depending on how you use v2, is that v3 runs msi validation as part of light. We found a bunch of msival errors in our MSIs when we went to v3, and it took some time to work through them. This is a good thing, though, since you have essentially raised the quality bar of your installers by doing this. We use votive with VS Team Suite, and we haven't had any problems yet. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I was thinking of trying out votive. We are using Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers with Team Foundation Server. We are also using WIX v2 for the msi. I was wondering, is Wix v3 stable enough to use if we are deploying our next version of our product in about 3-5 months. Has anyone used votive with team foundation server? Are there any problems to be expected when moving from wix v2 to wix v3? - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
