I've been struggling with this issue for some weeks now, and I've continued to back burner it, but can't do that anymore.
I've built a WixExtension, and use it in several installers. But I keep running into problems with Votive / MSBuild loading the extension I've built. I'm guessing I'm having conflicts with the strong name signing or something, but... here's what I've done, and what's not working. 1.) I download the binary release and install it. This is the only way I know how to get Votive to work. 2.) I download the source and build it. This is the only way I can get the extension build tools I need. (XsdGen, et al) 3.) I customize the Wix.Targets file to a Wix.Core.Targets so I can just pull the tasks I need, without pulling the forced included files. As it stands, I can't add an xsdgen task to my project without pulling in the SolutionInfo.cs files from the Wix distro unless I do this. 4.) I build the WixExtension, everything is happy. 5.) I build the Installer project using the WixExtension... I get a candle error "candle.exe(0,0): error CNDL0144: The extension '..\..\..\Install\WixExtension\WixExtension\bin\Release\WixExtension.dll' could not be loaded." Now, I've poked and prodded and moved references around, and I got it to work for about 2 weeks... I have no idea what planetary alignment I managed to create, but it worked. Now, I'm trying to get these build working under TFS Team Build, and everything has come back. What the crap? What is it I'm doing wrong, and how can I track this issue down? I created a feature request a while back about including the extension build tools in the binary release, but that has just never happened. I'm positive this an issue with me building these tools.. There's some version or strong name mismatch, and something's choking. Please, anyone, help me. :-) Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
