Email me when the day comes that a file unintentionally disappears from the installer and it goes unnoticed. :-) Trust me, I've been doing build and install for 15 years and it will happen.
The problem you mention is easily solved by putting the responsibility on the developer to make sure that he's "done done" and tests the installer and related functionality change on a clean machine. Making it an automagical process just gives the developer more excuses as to why it's not his fault when it doesn't work. Also are you doing major upgrades or minor upgrades? How about patches? ---------------------------------------- From: "David Rickard (USA)" <davri...@microsoft.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:44 PM To: "chr...@iswix.com" <chr...@iswix.com>, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow? Thanks for the advice. Though our devs work with the raw built files and our TFS builds clearly identify build breaks. Installer issues (like someone adding a file to the solution but forgetting to add it to the installer) would be at risk of going unnoticed. From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 10:48 AM To: David Rickard (USA); General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow? Open the solution up and click properties on the merge module project. Go to the build events tab then type your command into the pre-build event command line. I still wouldn't do it though. This type of dynamic authoring frequently masks up stream problems. What should have been a build break will end up being a runtime break. ---------------------------------------- From: "David Rickard (USA)" <davri...@microsoft.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:44 PM To: "chr...@deploymentengineering.com" <chr...@deploymentengineering.com>, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow? Alright. In this case how would you run a program to add all the files in a given directory to the MSI? Before we had an EXE that generated a merge module of files based on a directory. Could this hook in somehow? -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:09 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow? The simplest way is to use Votive to generate a .SLN / .WIXPROJ and then add the sln configuration | platform to to the build parameters in the build definition. You shouldn't have to do any customizations in workflow as the Default Template will work out of the box. Passing a ProductVersion property takes a little bit more work on the msbuild side ( build parameters and preprocessor definitions in the wixproj and wixs ) but it doesn't require any workflow changes. ---------------------------------------- From: "David Rickard (USA)" <davri...@microsoft.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:11 PM To: "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [WiX-users] Best way to invoke Wix from a TFS build workflow? I need to build some MSIs with Wix during our TFS build. Our current TFS build is using the Windows Workflow XAML files to declare the build logic. What's the best way to invoke Wix from there? Directly invoking the process from an activity? Going down to a powershell script and calling it from there? 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