Yessir, which to me sounds like a bug. At least in our project, there are a MASSIVE number of assemblies with an equally MASSIVE number of references. There simply aren't enough hours in the day to maintain all that by hand over the long haul.
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com> wrote: > Like you say each to his own but I have wasted a ridiculous amount of time > sorting out the mess Visual Studio deployment projects make of auto > harvesting. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Powell [mailto:mwpowel...@gmail.com] > Sent: 04 February 2012 20:10 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Harvesting dll's referenced in a c# project in VS > > Personally, each to his own I suppose. Professionally, I'm not being paid > to sit on top of my resource references (DLLs and such) that tightly. I > want to harvest them. > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com > >wrote: > > > Not that I am aware of, personally I am not a big fan of automatic > > harvesting as it leads to more issues than it's worth. I tend to just > > use heat directly as a one off to generate a wxs file that I then > > manually manage. > > > > Neil > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Terje Sandstrom [mailto:te...@hermit.onmicrosoft.com] > > Sent: 02 February 2012 20:57 > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Harvesting dll's referenced in a c# project > > in VS > > > > Thanks ! > > > > Surprising, but..... > > > > What is the workaround ? There is a workaround, right ? > > > > > > Best regards > > Terje > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] > > Sent: 2. februar 2012 21:24 > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Harvesting dll's referenced in a c# project > > in VS > > > > Unfortunately heat doesn't harvest referenced assemblies in a project. > > > > Neil > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Terje Sandstrom [mailto:te...@hermit.onmicrosoft.com] > > Sent: 02 February 2012 19:02 > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [WiX-users] Harvesting dll's referenced in a c# project in VS > > > > Hi! > > > > I'm pretty new to the toolset so bear with me :) > > > > I'm using 3.5, and am trying to harvest the dll's from the c# > > project, using the property Harvest set to true in Visual Studio. > > I do get a ComponentGroup named xxxxx.Binaries, but it don't contain > > any of the dll's that my project is referencing, something I did > > expect. 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