Blair, I didn't narrow it down exactly because it would have taken a while. The merge module WiX project that was giving me trouble currently references the project outputs of 415 projects, so I probably had several hundred WxS files at the time VS2010/MSBuild was croaking and I moved away from multiple WxS files to using WiX include files instead. I didn't build up the WiX project one WxS at a time because I was converting an existing installer over to WiX and it takes about 8 hours to build our product. I started small to verify that WiX was going to work and then added everything. I've been using WiX 3.5 the whole time. I do remember cutting down the number of WxS files to see when the problem occurred, and I seem to recall that it was not that many (well less than 100 I think). I apologize for not having a clearer idea but once I realized the number was small enough that it was just not going to work for me, I started exploring other ways of dealing with the problem.
In case you are thinking "415 projects?? That's crazy!!", it's because part of our product extends a third-party graphical programming application which requires a separate DLL for each "block" and we add a lot of new "blocks". <smile/> Dan ________________________________________ From: Blair [os...@live.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 12:00 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] add reference to C++ project Daniel, How many WXS files cause VS2010/MSBuild to croak? I haven't seen that. Blair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
