Hello Dandre,
I looked through the diffs of your changes during my lunch break. I like the
abstractions and constants you made. One thing you might consider is
partitioning the constants into subclasses so they work like enumerations with
IntelliSense. I have not pulled it yet. I am still digging for the Visual
Studio property pages for the references.
Regards,
David
From: Dandre Jansen van Vuuren
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:09
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Personal Heat project
Hi David
That's weird, I had to find a MSBuild file to enable visual studio project
harvesting to get it to work like it always have. I can't remember exactly
where it is, I'll have to look.
Did you try with my fork yet or did you not manage to get it to build?
Regards,
Dandre
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:03 PM, David G. van Hoose
<david.g.vanho...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Dandre,
I enabled it by setting EnableProjectHarvesting to true in my project file.
The problem is, the command line for Heat in the targets file ignores the
Visual Studio reference properties. It tries to harvest everything in the
project instead of just the outputs I indicated. Heat then barfs errors when
fed Windows forms resource files.
Regards,
David
From: Dandre Jansen van Vuuren
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 02:58
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Personal Heat project
Oh and just one more thing. They disabled Project harvesting from WiX 3.6
that's why you couldn't see Heat.exe running.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:28 PM, David G. van Hoose
<david.g.vanho...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Dandre,
Can you share what modifications you are making?
I haven’t been able to build the WiX project at all due to missing binaries
and delay signing issues when I build the rest. I will look through the
archives to catch up with the compilation discussion.
Regards,
David
From: Dandre Jansen van Vuuren
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:26
To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Personal Heat project
Hi David
I've been working on the Visual Studio Harvester for quite some time now
(not officially anyway) and I also wish to submit my changes to the WiX source
base.
I don't think it will happen for WiX 3.8 but from 4.0 it should take track,
I think.
What you could do in the mean time is follow the discussion that the guys
are having with compiling the Wix 3.8 source base as this will become the new
foundation on which 4.0 will run.
To look at the Heat project (or more precisely the VS Harvester), have a
look at the "ext" folder in the WiX source base.
I don't know how the new compilation process is but previously (in WiX 3.5)
I had to pull that project out and compile standalone in order to know that the
stuff I've been working on actually works. I then just merged the changes back
into the main source base.
I'm currently refactoring the VS Harvester and then I want to apply some
changes that will cause the harvester to load not just the current project but
all its dependencies as well.
Best of luck
Regards,
Dandre
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:11 PM, David G. van Hoose
<david.g.vanho...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have recently started using WiX on Visual Studio 2010 due to the
removal of the Visual Studio Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2012. I love
the power of WiX, but there are some places where I am experiencing some
issues. One of these issues is with transparent Heat automation through Visual
Studio.
The first problem that have faced is that the aggregate values for
Project Output Groups does not cover the scenarios that I use. I am very much
biased against the use of aggregate values. I prefer straight Boolean values
that can be used for a generative command-line. The harvesting also seems to
ignore the Project Output Groups anyway, and this is causing Heat to fail. I
would like to approach both of these issues together. The problem that I am
faced with, is where to begin. I downloaded the source code, but I could only
find processing code for the Project Output Groups. I could not find the coding
for the Visual Studio property. I looked in the Votive 2010 code, but could not
find anything there. Can anyone tell me where I should be looking? Does anyone
have any thoughts to add?
The second problem is with the regeneration of component GUIDs each time
Heat harvests a project. I have read that generating new component GUIDs with
patch releases causes all of the components to be reinstalled as new, even if
they were not updated. My goal here would be to have Heat be able to update
existing harvested files and keep a history of the GUIDs. Does this goal have
merit or is the premise baseless? Is there a better way?
Best Regards,
David
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