Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-07 Thread jcafaro10
Thanks all, I was a little confused I was thinking that Wix and MSBuild did basically the same thing and you could use one or the other. Sorry Bob Arnson-6 wrote: > > jcafaro10 wrote: >> Well I think how it works is the version number is stored somewhere so we >> need to check it out to modif

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-07 Thread John Hall
> You're doing it too late indeed. During msbuild > (BeforeCompile?) grasp the build version and write it to a > (new?) wxs file. Then add that wxs file to your Compile > itemgroup to get it compiled (and linked) to an msi. An easier way is to create a custom MSBuild task to get the version nu

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-07 Thread Schrieken, Rene
done, this doesn't mean they understand each other. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 10:10 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question Well I think how i

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread Bob Arnson
jcafaro10 wrote: > Well I think how it works is the version number is stored somewhere so we > need to check it out to modify it, and then check it back in so it becomes > part of the install. Is there an AfterCompile attribute instead of > InstallFiles? Maybe I'm doing that too late. Or is it j

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread jcafaro10
st an identifier. > > Brian Poploskie > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 3:34 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question > &

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread Brian Poploskie
: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question Looked at the tutorial and reworked some of the code. I'm still not sure what to do with the Import Projec

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread jcafaro10
Looked at the tutorial and reworked some of the code. I'm still not sure what to do with the Import Project, or if I even need it but here's what I have now.

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread Brian Poploskie
tions using dlls. Brian Poploskie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 2:40 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question Well here's what I have right but still

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread jcafaro10
Well here's what I have right but still not quite sure about several things. What is the wix equivalent of the UsingTask line so it knows to look in those dll's? In MSBuild: So far in Wix:

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread Brian Poploskie
If I understand the question correctly you want to call some methods within assemblies during installation? If that's the case you'll want to take a look at the CustomAction tag for a type 1 custom action. To schedule CustomActions after you've created them use the InstallExecuteSequence tag and