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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
