I've used the "batch build" dialog when building locally. Since team build is driven from msbuild scripts, you can build different configurations of the same project from your msbuild project file at the level of your solution. The "Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build" book by Hashimi & Bartholomew describes that in chapter 6.
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Ding [mailto:jd...@geo-slope.com] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:24 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] is wix project always in the same sln of application Thanks Blair for the reply. The reason for us to have a separated sln for the wix project is because our application is Win32 platform only, but when release our application, we need also to release some other dependent dlls in Win32 and x64 platforms, and there is another sln to generate them. When wix is built, it requires all the dlls ready, including the x64 dlls. So with a separated wix sln, we can easily specify the build order on the team build to let wix sln build after 2 other slns' build, then wix can find the installed dlls in both platforms. We feel that is easier than everything is in a single sln and when build the wix project it requires dll from another plathforms built first. Anyone has experienced the release of more than 1 platform by using wix? How do you handle the case I mentioned above? Appreciate any shared experience. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: September 30, 2009 6:37 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] is wix project always in the same sln of application It can really be done any way you wish (assuming you are handy with msbuild and a text editor), but the best "support" comes from within the same VS solution, as you noted. I'm not sure what you gain by having them be in separate solution files. Care to elaborate? -----Original Message----- From: Jason Ding [mailto:jd...@geo-slope.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:50 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] is wix project always in the same sln of application Hello, By design, is the wix project always in the same sln file as the application project? That is how the wix online help guides through how to create a setup, so when they are in a same sln, we can set the dependency to let the application built first before build the wix project. But is this the only way to create a setup? Can I create a sln for the wix project and another sln for the application? I have them in 2 slns, but I have a problem to build the wix sln on team build because its platform is x86, but my application platform is Win32, so the wix project cannot find the application dlls, which is inside Binaries\Win32 folder. (see the email on Monday Sept 28 titled 'x86 platform on wix project'). I am wondering if 2 slns is actually the correct way to go, so if by design, the wix project and application project should always share the same sln, I will just merge them to 1 sln, but I need the expert confirmation from the mail list. Can someone help clarify? Thanks. 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