Gordon Watts wrote: > I've got a further question. Is it possible to extend the WiX schema > to add a new install item. For example, I work a lot with installers > that install libraries for VS. I'd love to have a simple install action > that looked like <AddVSProjectDir Id="blah" Type="Executable" > Source="blah" />. This would invoke some sort of custom install action > that would modify the file VS 2005 reads to load up project include > files. The AddVSProjectDir would come under the Component entry. This > would probably require writing some code that gets wrapped up in the > installer, as well as some sort of extension to WiX. Is this possible? > If this is possible, does a library of such things exist on the net > somewhere? > That's what WiX extensions are all about. Sometimes, an extension just provides strongly-typed authoring for stock MSI features (e.g., registry values). Other times it includes custom actions. What file do you have to modify? There's a Visual Studio extension in WiX v3 but it doesn't have that scenario covered.
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