Those settings are read from the registry in the msbuild .targets file if the values for the variables are not provided in the msbuild environment.
For instance, see C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX\v3.5\wix.targets, and look for the task _SetDefaultPathValues. If you want to use WiX without installing it, you need to provide paths for WixToolPath, WixExtDir, and several other similar variables (see the other .target files). We do this at my company in order to run WiX from within our repo without actually installing it (so our build scripts work on a "clean" server without wix installed, and each version of our app can safely depend on different (independent) versions of WiX). Kelly From: "Gary Gocek" <g...@gocek.org> To: <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: 09/20/2010 07:54 PM Subject: [WiX-users] How do VS projects know where to find the WIX DLL? When WIX is installed, it updates Visual Studio to provide, for example, a C# custom action project type. This project type refers to Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll, and has a build action to run MakeSfxCa. How does Visual Studio know where that DLL resides? It's not in the GAC and there doesn't seem to be a path variable with the WIX folder. The .csproj file for the VS project does not contain the path. Just curious, Gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ************************************************************************************** This communication is intended solely for the addressee and is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Unless indicated to the contrary: it does not constitute professional advice or opinions upon which reliance may be made by the addressee or any other party, and it should be considered to be a work in progress. Unless otherwise noted in this email or its attachments, this communication does not form a Statement of Actuarial Opinion under American Academy of Actuaries guidelines. ************************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
