Just tried again and it does work -- I got line numbers in the stack trace in
the log.
Note if you're referencing $(IntermediateOutputPath) like in my example below,
you need to define the CustomActionContents property at the BOTTOM of your
project file, because $(IntermediateOutputPath) isn't created until
Microsoft.Common.targets is included.
At runtime the entire CA package is always extracted. At build time you should
be able to see the PDB getting included in the CA package in the MSBuild
output/log, it looks like this:
Modifying SfxCA.dll stub
Copying file version info from
C:\temp\CATest\CustomAction1\obj\x86\Debug\Microsoft.Deployment.Samples.ManagedCA.dll
to
C:\temp\CATest\CustomAction1\obj\x86\Debug\Microsoft.Deployment.Samples.ManagedCA.CA.dll
Packaging files
Microsoft.Deployment.Samples.ManagedCA.dll
Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll
CustomAction.config
Microsoft.Deployment.Samples.ManagedCA.pdb
MakeSfxCA finished:
C:\temp\CATest\CustomAction1\obj\x86\Debug\Microsoft.Deployment.Samples.ManagedCA.CA.dll
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob MacFadyen [mailto:rmacfad...@rmtrack.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:49 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF and PDB files for better error logging
Jason,
I did this at one point but it was ineffective. On the installation side it
appeared that the .PDB was not being extracted to the temporary directory.
Are you certain this actually works and results in line numbers showing in
stack traces for unhandled exceptions in managed CA's?
Thanks,
Rob
-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:32:07 -0700
From: Jason Ginchereau <jason...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF and PDB files for better error logging
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You can add additional items to the CA package by manually adding a
CustomActionContents property to your project file. For example, to include
your assembly PDB when building in debug mode:
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|x86' ">
<CustomActionContents>$(IntermediateOutputPath)$(AssemblyName).pdb</CustomActionContents>
</PropertyGroup>
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