Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

2009-04-21 Thread Brian Bakkebo
Thanks for the answer Brian. Yes, its very basic and ugly for some of our apps. I am working on that as well. What would be ideal is if you could just specify the .sln file and then heat "automagically" fetched all the structure plus reference dlls. That would be the dream..Perhaps version 4.0 o

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

2009-04-21 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Brian, Am I understanding you correctly when you say you have dependency .dlls listed in the project itself? If that is the case you could create a separate call to heat.exe to get those files as individuals. Unfortunately the only other way I know how to do this would be to use the -pog:Sourc

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

2009-04-21 Thread Brian Bakkebo
OK, Brian I am back again with a new question. Been Digging around the wix code. :) Now I have tried out Project harvester and the problem is I cannot get in all the dll's included with the project. Basically we have multiple projects in the solution. So I tried to use the "Satellites" ProjectOu

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

2009-04-20 Thread Brian Bakkebo
Thanks Brian I am using the latest drop of wix. Brian, no I didn't know about the project harvester. That is basically what I am trying to do. Is there any info on how to use it anywhere? On Apr 20, 2009 5:38 PM, "Brian Rogers" wrote: Hey Brian, Which version of heat.exe are you using? Is it

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

2009-04-20 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Brian, Which version of heat.exe are you using? Is it this weeks drop? Second, if you could show more or your source wixproj that would be great. Also, the PreprocessorVariable takes only "var.MyVar" not "$(var.MyVar). Do you know about the VSProject harvestor extension? This might work for w

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

2009-04-20 Thread Brian Bakkebo
Hello Brian, thanks for your response below. It solved just about everything for me. Now I have a problem with the heat output: based on your heat examples here: http://icumove.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FB93073C6534B681!461.entry But I am not quite sure how to define this variable in the wix pro

Re: [WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

2009-04-19 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Brian, Try the below. Debug msbuild.heatfile Package *Pass via the command line* en-us ..\..\data\HeatDir Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:39

[WiX-users] Building wix from visual studio 2008 using HeatDirectory/HeatTask

2009-04-19 Thread Brian Bakkebo
Hello all (I posted this to the wrong list on friday(wix-users-request)) Rob pointed out to me that there was a way to use heattasks: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/710687/best-way-to-create-a-wix-fragment-file-based-on-user-defined-directories-to-be-us,but I have not been able to get heattask