First a disclaimer, I haven't actually done this! VS Solutions are nothing but groups of projects, you can have one solution which has the projects you want to build and another solution that includes the Votive projects that you use with Visual Studio.
It's not that hard to create an MSBuild file which describes how to build your WiX V2 or V3 code. Once you have your WiX MSBuild file, create a Team Foundation build type which builds the solution that doesn't reference WiX then edit the TFSBuild.proj file and add another <SolutionToBuild...> element that points to the WiX MSBuild file. Despite its name, the <SolutionToBuild> element can point at a solution or a project file and the project file just has to be valid MSBuild, it doesn't have to be something that Visual Studio can understand. > > 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! :-) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
