Had a look at the files and I've finally got my head round this.
As i understand it WiX v2 .wixproj files, which are used for VS
integration, aren't MSBuild files. You have to create your own .wproj files
for that. Which means that WiX v2 isn't compatible withTeam Build (as it
tries to build the .wixproj file).
It'd be really cool if v2 did support Team Build and it's solution centric
build process. Without it we can't really consider using WiX v2 or v3 (as
it's not stable yet).
Which leads me to my next question, is there a rough time line for the
switch to v3?
Oh and in case it makes you feel better Justin I've been messing around
with IS for two days and 2 hotfixes later i still can't get it to build
with MS or Team! :-)
Matt
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Re: [WiX-users] Using WiX v3 Votive
07/09/2007 02:22 to build WiX v2 projects
To get back to your original question where you're setting $(WixToolPath)
to point to the 2.0 versions… That should work fine unless you try to pass
in arguments that only the 3.0 versions support. I don't remember off the
top of my head what those new properties are, but you'd probably learn
pretty quickly when you get build errors. The WiX project property pages
within Visual Studio are targeted for the 3.0 versions and not all of the
various checkboxes and other settings will work when using the 2.0
candle/light/lit.
There are no plans to touch Votive v2 in any way and all active development
is being done against Votive v3. You could log a feature request, if you
wanted, to add the ability in Votive v3 to target a v2 candle/light/lit. To
be honest it probably won't happen (at least for a long time) simply
because I'm working on other higher priority features, but it's a nice
idea.
And why'd you have to throw in that last jab about "InstallShield has been
doing it for years"? J
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The finer points of MSBuild/Team build are getting lost in these replies so
it's kind of pointless to continue. VDPROJ and WiX v2 are proper
comparisons because both have .xxproj files that are NOT MSBuild files.
Whether or not they `support` MSBuild is a non issue. For example to
build both you could use an Exec to go out of process and call devenv
solution /build project but thats really ugly as it adds another dependency
to the build box.
For Matt, I'd suggest that you just start wiring it up and what I've posted
previously will quickly become obvious. WiX v3 with it's native MSBuild
project format is just so much more cleaner and powerful from a TFS
perspective. It also happens to be the way InstallShield has been doing it
for years...
Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I'm interested to know why V2 won't work for you as it does provide
support
> for MSBuild?
>
> My understanding of Votive is that it enables WiX projects to be viewed
in
> VS, still in there text\xml format. If the project is there but Votive
> isn't VS marks it as "unavailable". If that's the case MSBuild will
still
> build it... or no?
>
Yes, it will. Votive v2's project files aren't based on MSBuild; Votive
v3's are. But both WiX v2 and v3 include MSBuild tasks and targets and
therefore both can be built from TFS Build.
The same isn't true of .vdproj files, which are still not based on
MSBuild.
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