I agree - this is an oversight in Votive. Here was my workaround:
1) In the wix prebuild, add the following to create the transformed web configs:
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe
..\..\..\PathTo\MyWebApp.csproj /t:TransformWebConfig
/p:Configuration=$(ConfigurationName) /noconlog /nologo
2) Disable automatic harvesting on My project reference, since Votive doesn't
provide a field to specify a transform file (another needed feature).
3) Instead, open the .wixproj file and add the following to call heat:
<ItemGroup>
<HarvestProject Include="..\MyWebApp.csproj">
<ProjectOutputGroups>Content;Binaries</ProjectOutputGroups>
<Transforms>MyWebTransform.xslt</Transforms>
<Link>MyWebApp.csproj</Link>
</HarvestProject>
</ItemGroup>
4) For reference in this example, my directory structure looks like this:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="MyApp">
<Directory Id="BINDIR" Name="Bin"/>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
5) Create the xslt file referenced in step 3. Note, I do a few other things
here also:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:wix="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>
<!-- Default Template -->
<xsl:template match="@*|*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Set the content root dir to INSTALLLOCATION -->
<xsl:template match="wix:directoryr...@id='MyWebApp.Content']">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="Id">INSTALLLOCATION</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Keep binary files in the BINDIR -->
<xsl:template match="wix:directoryr...@id='MyWebApp.Binaries']">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="Id">BINDIR</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Point to the correct source for the transformed web.config -->
<xsl:template
match="wix:fi...@source='$(var.MyWebApp.ProjectDir)\Web.config']">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="Compressed">yes</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@Id" />
<xsl:attribute
name="Source">$(var.MyWebApp.ProjectDir)obj\$(var.MyWebApp.Configuration)\TransformWebConfig\transformed\Web.config</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
That's it. When you build, msbuild will transform the webconfig, then heat
will use the xslt to point at it properly.
Matt Johnson MCPD, MCTS, MCSD, MCDBA
Director of Application Development
Time America, Inc.
ma...@timeamerica.com | www.timeamerica.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Jarratt (MCS UK) [mailto:rjarr...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 12:28 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Using web.config transformations in WiX
I would like to make use of the web.config transformations feature in
combination with the integration of Heat in VS 2010. I know I can get the
transformation output during the build, but if I use the Content project output
group then the web.config gets included from the source directory rather than a
transformed one. Is there a way to use the project output group and yet replace
the web.config with the transformed one? I would also like to find a way to
avoid this including the web.config.release and web.config.debug files.
Thanks
Rob
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