By default, OutputPath is set to "bin\$(Configuration)\". VS should pick it up from there.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jansen, David Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Passing version number into WiX via TeamBuild 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Thanks! Yes that is the problem I'm having, however, Aaron's blog post suggested he had a solution for that. Very confusing. Ok, so using your approach, how are you specifying file path locations in your wix script when building from Visual Studio? I noticed that you set OutputPath=BinariesRoot which allows the Wix script to get all the files from binaries root. Note: I didn't need to pass through the Configuration property. It is available in the new wix build. Cheers Dave From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Burns Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 9:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Passing version number into WiX via TeamBuild 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] I should note that the reason it doesn't work in the SolutionToBuild definition is because those properties and items are all defined when the build is initialized. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Burns Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Passing version number into WiX via TeamBuild 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] I added <DefineSolutionProperties>false</DefineSolutionProperties> to my WiX project files and then the following preprocessor variables on the Property pages. SimpleVersion=1.0;DetailedVersion=1.0.0.0 Then I used the Attrib and FileUpdate tasks from MSBuild.Community.Tasks as follows in the AfterGet target. <CreateItem Include="$(SolutionRoot)\**\*.wixproj"> <Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="WixProjectsToVersion" /> </CreateItem> <Attrib Files="@(WixProjectsToVersion)" Normal="true" /> <FileUpdate Files="@(WixProjectsToVersion)" Regex="SimpleVersion=.*;DetailedVersion=.*<" ReplacementText="$(WixVersions)<" /> The $(WixVersions) property is generated earlier in the build process. I then use the MSBuild task in the PackageBinaries target to compile the WiX projects. <MSBuild Projects="$(SolutionRoot)\Setup.wixproj" Properties="OutputPath=$(BinariesRoot);Configuration=Release" /> Simple, yet effective. John Burns Notion Solutions, Inc. 214.405.8926 - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jansen, David Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Passing version number into WiX via TeamBuild 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] All, I have been trying to implement a practical solution to pass through a version number into WiX projects via TeamBuild using wix pre-processor variables. Hopefully someone has figured this out already. I have attempted the following solutions 1. TeamBuild modifies WXS project (working - Thanks Grant!! - but not ideal as it always reformats the xml, and causes an item to merge when merging back up to main) 2. WiX extracts assembly version number during binding (working - not ideal for manual patch builds requiring new MSI version number) 3. Passing version number through to a wix pre-processor variable (not working) Solution 3 is the direction I would like to go and have had many attempts to get this working. Aaron Hallberg's blog post<http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronhallberg/archive/2008/05/12/orcas-sp1-tfs-build-changes-part-2.aspx> offers the solution when using VS2008/TeamBuild 2008 however I could not get this to work. i.e. the properties were not updated in the SolutionToBuild. In the Wix project file, I've defined the pre-processor variable VersionNumber=9.9.9.9 in order for it to compile for local Visual Studio 2008 builds. I'm was hoping to override this property when built by TeamBuild. In the TeamBuild script, I have created a pre-processor variable called VersionNumber in the WiX script and in order to pass a value to it from TeamBuild, I specify the following: <SolutionToBuild Include="SomeSolution.sln"> <Properties>DefineConstants=VersionNumber=$(VersionNumber)</Properties> </SolutionToBuild> Aaron Hallberg then mentions that in order to set the $(VersionNumber), you have to set the following: <Target Name="BuildNumberOverrideTarget"> <PropertyGroup> <CustomPropertiesForBuild>$(CustomPropertiesForBuild);VersionNumber=$(VersionNumber)</CustomPropertiesForBuild> </PropertyGroup> </Target> However this still does not work for me. DefineConstants has a VersionNumber='emptystring'. If I hard code DefineConstants=VersionNumber=1.2.3.4 it works perfectly. So for some simply reason, I cannot get TeamBuild to re-set the VersionNumber property when used in the SolutionToBuild item list. Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 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