VDPROJ has been dead for a few releases now. For proof, TFS doesn't even work with it at all (so you can't use it on build servers). I've had to use WiX for the last few years, to ensure that build servers at client sites could dump out .msi files at the end.
-David Burela On 6 October 2012 13:56, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> wrote: > Watching this thread, and having had to do some Wix stuff last week I've > come to the conclusion that installing software is way too complicated. I'm > liking how Windows 8 apps are deployed. ie single file package. > > Lets hope it catches on. > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > >> Hi Ian, I followed some of your links and browsed around for a vdproj to >> WiX converter (or msi to WiX converter). The PowerShell script looks too >> primitive. Dark.exe is impressive but it produces lots of warnings and >> reams of output that I’d have to trim down.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I think the safest thing to do is just learn to write WiX files from >> scratch and get nice clean results. I’ll report later on how it goes as a >> warning to others.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Greg**** >> > >
