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Roman Pokrovskij
Roman Pokrovskij

Reputation: 9776

How to configure visual studio's solution to open/compile wix projects without wix 3.6 installation?

How to configure visual studio's solution to open/compile wix projects without wix 3.6 installing on the machine?

In other words the situation that I want to get is: developer after "Get Latest", together with sources, get all wix tools when solution is ready yo use them (build msi).

I have seen the article about that a half of year ago but now I can't find it without your help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3346

Answers (2)

Yan Sklyarenko
Yan Sklyarenko

Reputation: 32270

The article you mention is likely the one describing how to build WiX projects on a build server where WiX Toolset is not installed the usual way (via MSI package). It is called Integrating WiX Projects into the daily builds and is also available in WiX.chm under Working with MSBuild folder.

You'll be able to build WiX projects on a build server and locally on a developer machine, but not from the Visual Studio - for the reason explained by Bob in his answer.

Upvotes: 2

Bob Arnson
Bob Arnson

Reputation: 21896

You can't. Visual Studio requires a separate VSPackage to understand project types (like .wixproj) that aren't "in the box." For WiX, that requires installing Votive, the WiX project system for VS.

Upvotes: 2

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