Thanks. I'm sure it's in there somewhere, but MSBuild is not Visual Studio - it's part of .Net (oddly IMHO). And if you search the index for MSBuild you'll find nothing at all, but if you "search" for it you will find the link. I'm not saying that it isn't there, but I do think it's very easy to miss.
Once I get my installer released, and once I feel I know enough to be helpful to others (and this thread proves I'm not really there yet) I may stop whining and start contributing this project. :-) -Chris On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Neil Enns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. 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