Colin,
You can set an environment variable in the build process and then access
that inside wix as $(env.projectVersion)
Or you can set an Wix variable in the candle command line
"candle -dMyProject.Version=<value>"
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Fox [mailto:greenene...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 10:11 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Getting the version from the Assembly file
Yes - our current release strategy is to always release major upgrades.
The entire MSI is under 10 megs so it's not a huge deal.
I'm relatively new to the company, and this process has been in place
since long before I got here, but part of the build process is to use a
build tool to set the version number, and it goes and modifies some
files. I was hoping to streamline things a bit and just modify one file
and have the version be deduced by the rest of the system.
If it can't be done through a wix variable, then I can probably modify
the build tool to change the wix file, but that just feels wrong (not to
mention will cause unnecessary changes for our revision control system).
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Rob Mensching
<rob.mensch...@microsoft.com>wrote:
> 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
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