Hello all, We are trying to implement WiX installers for the first time. Prior to attempting to add a WiX installer in our production solution, we have played around in a sandbox using examples from WiX: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML, which we found to be very helpful. Everything is working well.
Our production solution is Visual Studio 2012 with c# WPF using WCF web services for data access. We are harvesting the files from the main project in our WiX installer project. We are also using the Visual Studio Gallery extension Slow Cheetah to handle transforming our config files based upon build type, debug, test or release. Slow Cheetah creates app.Debug.config, app.Test.config and app.Release.config files in addition to the standard app.config file. You place overrides in the specialized config files (e.g. different endpoints for the WCF services) and then Slow Cheetah merges the requested one into the app.config that is generated at build time. Below is a link for more information. We are getting the following heat.exe error: Build error during harvesting: C:\Users\ourUser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSBuild\SlowCheetah\v1\SlowCheetah.Transforms.targets(91,5): Could not open Transform file: Could not find file 'C:\Users\ourUser\Desktop\Source\Applications\ourSolutionName\Branches\TFSBranch\NET\PSUInstaller\app.Debug.config'. The missing file represents the specialized file that is used to merge with the app.config file. It should be skipped by the WiX installer. Can anyone provide some ideas about how to resolve this error? Is there a way to flag a specific folder or file as not harvestable? Are there any attributes that can be set? SlowCheetah - XML Transforms This package enables you to transform your app.config or any other XML file based on the build configuration. It also adds additional tooling to help you create XML transforms. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/69023d00-a4f9-4a34-a6cd-7e854ba318b5 Thanks in advance for any ideas and/or suggestions! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Harvesting-build-error-for-missing-file-that-is-not-needed-tp7583225.html Sent from the wix-devs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
