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
That's the hope. :)
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Stephen Price
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 8:57 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: VS2012 doesn't support setup projects
Watching this thread, and having had to do some Wix stuff last week
Victoria Park, Western Australia
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 4:20 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: VS2012 doesn't support setup projects
Basically, your screwed.
Technically, it looks
Of Ian Thomas
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 6:25 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: VS2012 doesn't support setup projects
Greg
You may not be as badly screwed as you thought.
There's always someone wanting to write a conversion program - just spend a
few minutes on search + assessment: it may have
'
Subject: RE: VS2012 doesn't support setup projects
One of the first that I found -
courtesy of Chris Oldwood, UK - a PowerShell script:
http://www.chrisoldwood.com/win32/vdproj2wix/vdproj2wix.html
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Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
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
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
it seems to be the case, see blog below from Visual Studio ALM
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2011/03/17/visual-studio-setup-projects-vdproj-will-not-ship-with-future-versions-of-vs.aspx
Visual Studio 2012 Compatibility
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh266747.aspx
Some people
You can’t open
this project in Visual Studio 2012 RC because it doesn't support
that project type. We recommend that you use InstallShield
Limited Edition for Visual Studio (ISLE), a free deployment
solution that directly supports most Windows
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What am I supposed to do with all my vdproj files? This is a small
disaster for migration to VS2012.
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Basically, your screwed. Need to convert all the installers to something
else. That's what we did, but only has one installer.
In the short term, you can use VS2012
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