So it looks like being able to cancel an MSBuild task mid-progress is something new to MSBuild 4.0. Since WiX tasks have to work in VS2005, 2008, and 2010, the tasks are compiled against MSBuild 2.0 and cannot take on the 4.0 dependency. I suppose it could be split so that there is one tasks DLL for VS 2005/2008 and another for VS2010, but I'm not sure yet if this is something we want to do.
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Paloma [mailto:apal...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:18 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Interrupting a WiX build When a user requests to cancel a build, Votive does not stop a task currently in progress. The build will be stopped after the current task ends. I'll look into improving this. Also, asynchronous building only occurs when using Visual Studio 2010. When using VS2005/2008 the IDE will be mostly unresponsive while a build is in progress. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Carlson (DEV DIV) [mailto:mica...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:40 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Interrupting a WiX build Light doesn't have any code to "check for cancel" that I'm aware of. I've always assumed the "cancel build" feature utilized something like a break command (ctrl-c) on the command-line. I don't really work in the votive space, so I haven't confirmed that assumption. As Neil pointed out, make sure you're using a recent build of WiX 3.5 (that allows votive to remain responsive while the build is going on), and if the cancel build command still doesn't work in that case, do make sure to file a bug. -----Original Message----- From: Thorpe, Alan [mailto:atho...@bottomline.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 6:01 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Interrupting a WiX build The Cancel menu option is there and I never really noticed it much until the installer grew significantly. Is there a natural breakpoint when Light checks to see if cancel has been raised? In other words... What is the expected behavior for Light to check for a cancel? Cancel of a C compile causes the build to stop relatively quickly, but that may be because I'm compiling numerous small files and the compiler checks for the cancel between each file. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Carlson (DEV DIV) <mica...@microsoft.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tue Feb 09 17:23:12 2010 Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Interrupting a WiX build Do the cancel build (etc.) buttons work? If you're sure the regular "cancel build" options that work for C++ / C# builds aren't working for wix (either the options aren't visible, or the options are visible but don't function as you feel they should), go ahead and file a bug against WiX 3.5 / Votive, and we'll take a look. -----Original Message----- From: Thorpe, Alan [mailto:atho...@bottomline.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:53 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Interrupting a WiX build Simple question... probably has a binary answer... Is there any way to cancel a WiX build in mid-stream? (Visual Studio 2008 and WiX 3.0.) Am I missing a setting or WiX project design best-practice that will allow this? Scenario: Huge installer... small errors that show up in lots of places... easy fixed with global search and replace!... Light error messages roll by forever in the output window... many minutes later the project finally fails and I can make the fix. 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