No, most of us have some sort of "place" activity or task that makes things pretty as a final build step--creating all the necessary folders and copying all the necessary files to all the destinations. I even do it with a split personality--it setups one output tree format for developers and another for the file server.
-- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com www.jackhenry.com -----Original Message----- From: Rune Moberg [mailto:jjfl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 3:33 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] TFS 2013 -- new default build template and WiX That sounds like what you'll get if you set RunMSBuild.OutputLocation to "AsConfigured". I tried that, but that stopped msbuild from publishing my web projects. Which means I end up reworking my setup projects to fish out relevant .config-files from quite a few scattered locations. What I'd really like to see is RunMSBuild respect its OutDir property. AFAICT it is completely ignored (overriden by OutputLocation -- which, btw, defaults to "SingleFolder" if no value has been set). (Oh, and I abandoned the old MSBuild action because I couldn't get NuGet working properly, whereas the new RunMSBuild action works nicely with NuGet) As for copying stuff around afterward, I have both custom actions and an old template that does that already. I guess I just feel there ought to be a cleaner solution to this. Do most TFS users really drop off all files from the build? On a related note, TFS have added the capability of dropping files into the version control repository. That, combined with an action that ferries along the *.msi files to the real location... It might not be a bad idea to keep all the built projects around. On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:54 PM, John H Bergman (XPedient) <john.berg...@xpdnt.com> wrote: > There is also a way to configure the build template to use the output > directories of the solution, if you are interested, I'll dig up my > notes and send them to you, it was pretty straight forward though > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rune Moberg [mailto:jjfl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 1:32 PM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] TFS 2013 -- new default build template and > WiX > > Well, I have been playing with the idea of my own little publishing scheme. > Maybe this is the shove I needed. Thx for the input guys. > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:22 PM, John H Bergman (XPedient) > <john.berg...@xpdnt.com> wrote: >> Or, you could add an activity (and configuration point) that copies the >> desired files from the drop location to a new location for publishing. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: James Buchan [mailto:james.buc...@tribalgroup.com] >> Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 12:07 PM >> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] TFS 2013 -- new default build template and >> WiX >> >> Hi, >> There are 2 ways I'm aware of that you can do this. I haven't looked >> at the default build workflow template for a while so can't remember exactly >> what needs to be replaced, but these should point you in the right direction. >> >> 1 - Create a new build task to do the rename (relocate) the files for you (I >> do more than the example below in my action, this means for each build that >> uses my template I need to add additional code to my action, but it's a >> small overhead I can handle). >> >> namespace BuildTasks.Activities >> { >> public sealed class RenameMSI : CodeActivity >> { >> public InArgument<string> OutDir { get; set; } >> public InArgument<string> DropDir { get; set; } >> >> protected override void Execute(CodeActivityContext context) >> { >> string outDir = context.GetValue(this.OutDir); >> string dropDir = context.GetValue(this.DropDir); >> >> File.Copy(outDir + "\\MSIName.msi", dropDir + "\\ MSIName.msi"); >> } >> } >> } >> >> 2 - If you're less comfortable with writing your own build tasks, you can >> use some of the included tasks (with a bit of configuration) to do something >> similar. >> I used the following link when I first started messing with build >> templates, to reduce the amount of stuff that appears in my drop >> folder (see from step 12) >> http://geekswithblogs.net/jakob/archive/2010/05/14/building-visual-st >> u dio-setup-projects-with-tfs-2010-team-build.aspx >> >> James >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> -------- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph >> Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their >> applications. 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