Are you always going to release using Major Upgrades? If not, then you need to keep the name constant. That fact is why you don't see many people putting the version number in the MSI name. Not a common request thus not necessarily simple to implement.
-----Original Message----- From: Colin Fox [mailto:greenene...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 14:36 To: wix-users Subject: [WiX-users] Getting the version from the Assembly file Hi everyone. I'd like go be able to set the version of my application in the assembly.cs file, and have it used in both the wix file and also in the wix file name. So if my app is version 1.2.3, I'd like the .msi file to be called "MyAmazingApp_1_2_3.msi" or something equivalent. I've seen some articles on the net about pulling an assembly version and putting it into the wix file but they all seem like giant hacks. It seems to me that since versions seem to feature so prominently, it makes sense to integrate them more smoothly into the build system. And you shouldn't have to set it in more than one place. How difficult would it be to create another candle varable, such as $(var.MyProject.Version) ? Is this something I can add myself, or do I have to jump through those ugly hoops? -- Regards, cf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
