[WiX-users] How does a votive project pass variables to candle?

I tried looking at the wix.targets but do not understand msbuild adequately. Are the many var.Projectname.xxx and var.Solutionxxx variables passed in on the command line with -d or are they written to a .wxi file or does candle take special input for variable somehow besides the -d option? Seems

Re: [WiX-users] How does a votive project pass variables to candle?

Nevermind on this question. I created a dummy project and looked at the output window and saw that they really are all -d options: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\candle.exe -dabc=xyz -dhello=456 -dDevEnvDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\\

Re: [WiX-users] How does a votive project pass variables to candle?

Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How does a votive project pass variables to candle? Nevermind on this question. I created a dummy project and looked at the output window and saw that they really are all -d options: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\candle.exe