> *Breaking news* ... I see that WiX has Visual Studio integration since I last tried it. This sounds really encouraging. Has anyone tried it? I'll give it a try now (and I expect to shed more of my hair in frustration).
nope. the integration in VS is pretty poor/basic. It's sort of usable for MSI but if you're using the bundles it is abysmal. Anything I wanted to do (ANYTHING) I had to edit the proj file by hand. Right clicking for properties did nothing. I started using WIX last week and I started outside of Visual studio WIX projects using a batch file. And I'm so glad I did as I'd have wasted hours trying to get anything done. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 22 January 2017 at 19:32, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > I disagree. We use WIX significantly inside Visual Studio, and use it to >> build quite possible the largest in world using it (in terms of both >> packages and size). Office also used it for years. >> > > Then for the love of humanity, please get someone to make it easier for > coders in the suburbs to use. Unless it's changed in the last few years, I > was angered by the lack of clarity on how to nest the various elements, I > recall you could group blocks of elements either inline or factor them out, > and there was no guidance on when to do what. As the XML grew large and > repetitive it became a burden. I needed to create some custom dialogs in > the UI sequence (a bit like the old office ones) but there was no designer > assistance of any kind and you had to manually define the position and > length of every dialog element using unclear units (are they GDI Dialog > units?). Even some helpful samples or typical usage cases would have been a > helpful starting point. It was so impenetrable that I gave up. The > *dis*-integration > of the various humorously named tools and lack of guidance created the > amateurish impression. > > *Breaking news* ... I see that WiX has Visual Studio integration since I > last tried it. This sounds really encouraging. Has anyone tried it? I'll > give it a try now (and I expect to shed more of my hair in frustration). > > *GK* >
