You could do that. I tend to add an explicit .props/.targets file to the .wixprojs myself but you have options with MSBuild.
Documentation improvements are always appreciated. -----Original Message----- From: John Ludlow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 2, 2013 8:07 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Signing bundles - changes needed to each bundle wixproj Hi Rob, How would this be invoked from the build? Your message prompted some digging, and I found CustomAfterWixTargets. Would you recommend setting this to the path to my own msbuild .targets file, and providing the SignXXX targets in there? I tried this and it seemed to work. If this is best practice, it would be worth updating the documentation to this effect. On 2 December 2013 14:52, Rob Mensching <[email protected]> wrote: > Generally, I've seen people use the instructions to check the WiX > toolset into their build process and provide a standard > .props/.targets file for encapsulating all the custom logic for their build. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Ludlow [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 2, 2013 4:23 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] Signing bundles - changes needed to each bundle > wixproj > > Hi, > > We're writing an installer using a bundle to chain two MSIs together. > The bundle should be signed (we generally sign installers and EXEs and DLLs). > Currently, we're using WiX 3.6 (we currently use Visual Studio 2008, > and > 3.7 didn't support that version of Visual Studio). > > We've discovered the 0x80004005 error described here: > > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Wix-3-7- > Burn-error-0x80004005-Failed-to-extract-all-files-from-container-td758 > 7152.html > > However, the fix for this seems to be to tweak the project files. This > is not a preferred solution for us, as over the next year we will be > creating a significant number of these as we adopt this technology for > some of our existing installers. Since any tweaks to the projects are > hidden (they require right clicking the project, choosing Edit... and > effectively unloading the project from the solution). We'd have to > remember to do that each time we create a bundle, and I'd rather not have > that point of failure. > > I'm planning on using insignia.exe to extract engine.exe, sign it and > then import it. However, it's been suggested this is also less than > ideal (though it's better than having to remember to tweak a project file). > > I was wondering whether this is improved in later versions of WiX. I > imagine it would be pretty simple for WiX to include this > functionality in the default .wixproj project template, meaning we > don't have to remember to do it ourselves. If this is the case, would this > also support timestamping? > > Or are there any other inventive solutions for solving this issue? > > Thanks > > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your > business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how > application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you > get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your > 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.c > lktrk _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your > business. 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