Re: [WiX-users] Can a property be used instead of a string for source attribute

2007-04-11 Thread Rob Hamflett
I'm going to be careful here, so as to not confuse a few concepts. Properties are entries in the Properties table, defined through the Properties element. These are runtime values only. What you're after is the preprocessor. You want to define something like this: Source='D:\Projects\soluti

Re: [WiX-users] Can a property be used instead of a string for source attribute

2007-04-10 Thread Bob Arnson
Nosherwan Ghazanfar wrote: I have just started using WiX and I was wondering if there is a way to define and use properties as source attribute values instead of providing fully qualified file names as strings. Not properties -- they're purely a build-time concept -- but check out the "Pr

[WiX-users] Can a property be used instead of a string for source attribute

2007-04-10 Thread Nosherwan Ghazanfar
Hi, I have just started using WiX and I was wondering if there is a way to define and use properties as source attribute values instead of providing fully qualified file names as strings. I want to do this, because once I change from the debug version to the release version I will have to manuall