Runing the candle command from a command line window yields additional exception output. As a side note, any ideas why wouldn't the exception details be captured as part of the build output when invoked from VS2010 (sure would have saved me a ton of time)?
Here's the output: Exception Type: System.InvalidOperationException Stack Trace: at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.ColumnDefinition.ValidateValue(Object value) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.UtilCompiler.ParsePermissio nExElement(XmlNode node, String objectId, String componentId, Boolean win64, Str ing tableName) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.UtilCompiler.ParseElement(S ourceLineNumberCollection sourceLineNumbers, XmlElement parentElement, XmlElemen t element, String& keyPath, String[] contextValues) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.UtilCompiler.ParseElement(S ourceLineNumberCollection sourceLineNumbers, XmlElement parentElement, XmlElemen t element, String[] contextValues) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.CompilerCore.ParseExtensionElement(Sou rceLineNumberCollection sourceLineNumbers, XmlElement parentElement, XmlElement element, String[] contextValues) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Compiler.ParseRegistryKeyElement(XmlNo de node, String componentId, Int32 root, String parentKey, Boolean win64Componen t, String& possibleKeyPath) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Compiler.ParseComponentElement(XmlNode node, ComplexReferenceParentType parentType, String parentId, String parentLang uage, Int32 diskId, String directoryId, String srcPath) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Compiler.ParseDirectoryRefElement(XmlN ode node) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Compiler.ParseFragmentElement(XmlNode node) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Compiler.ParseWixElement(XmlNode node) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Compiler.Compile(XmlDocument source) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Candle.Run(String[] args) So... it looks like perhaps the problem is in ParsePemissionExElement. Assuming this is complaining about <util:PermissionsEx ...> element I'm left little better off. I use this in quite a few places and they all follow the same pattern: <util:PermissionEx User="Guests" GenericRead="yes" Read="yes" GenericExecute="yes" /> <util:PermissionEx User="Users" GenericRead="yes" Read="yes" GenericExecute="yes" /> <util:PermissionEx User="Everyone" GenericRead="yes" Read="yes" GenericExecute="yes" /> <util:PermissionEx User="Administrators" GenericAll="yes" /> <util:PermissionEx User="CREATOR OWNER" GenericAll="yes" /> Commenting out every <util:PermissionEx ..> element allows the build to succeed. Adding back a single <util:PermissionEx User="Administrators" GenericAll="yes" /> causes the build to fail with the " Cannot set column 'SecureObject' with a null value because this is a required field" error. I have a reference to util (C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.6\bin\\WixUtilExtension.dll) and I have included the namespace: <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"; xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"; > Has <util:PermissionEx ..> been dropped from 3.6? Any suggestions? Regards, Rob -----Original Message----- From: Robert MacFadyen [mailto:rmacfad...@rmtrack.com] Sent: October-15-12 9:53 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Just upgraded to v3.6.3303.0 and now can't build... Hey all, Just upgraded and tried to rebuild my VS2010 wix project. Cleaned up a few warnings and now it compiles clean... _except_ for the following error: candle.exe(0,0): error CNDL0001: Cannot set column 'SecureObject' with a null value because this is a required field. The error output leaves a lot to be desired: 1. What source file is causing this? 2. What table does the column belong too? The full candle command is (some names changed to protect the innocent): candle.exe -sw1008 -sw1009 -v -dConfiguration=Release -dOutDir=bin\Release\ -dPlatform=x86 -d"ProjectDir=C:\..snip..\MyProject\\" -dProjectExt=.wixproj -dProjectFileName=MyProject.wixproj -dProjectName=MyProject -d"ProjectPath=C:\ ..snip..\MyProject.wixproj" -d"TargetDir=C:\ ....snip..\MyProject\bin\Release\\" -dTargetExt=.msi -dTargetFileName=MyProject.msi -dTargetName=MyProject -d"TargetPath=C:\ ....snip..\MyProject\bin\Release\MyProject.msi" -out obj\Release\ -arch x86 -ext "C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.6\bin\\WixNetFxExtension.dll" -ext "C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.6\bin\\WixUtilExtension.dll" -ext "C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.6\bin\\WixUIExtension.dll" -ext "C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.6\bin\\WixIIsExtension.dll" Application.wxs CustomDialogs.wxs ErrorText.wxs Files.wxs MicrosoftAssemblies.wxs MyAssemblies.wxs MyCustomActionDefinitions.wxs MyEventLog.wxs MyRegistry.wxs I've been through every <Property ..> element and removed Secure="yes" but this has not helped. I've reviewed this bug: http://sourceforge.net/p/wix/bugs/2941/ and its original posting (http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/MSI-projects- fail-to-build-after-upgrading-to-v3-6-2914-0-td7559640.html) but my project is not suppressing .wixpdb output (even tried turning it on and then off). Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to move past this problem? Any suggestions on how to gather more output from candle to get a clue as to the origin of the problem? Thanks! Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. 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