This is great. I'm moving this over to wix-devs since that is where
discussions about creating the WiX toolset are had (vs. conversations here
about *using* the WiX toolset)
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com>wrote:
> I now see the SDK\VS2010 and SDK\VS2012 folders that include inc and lib
> subfolders. I suspect this is where much of the work will need to be done
> to make VS specific libs and wired up to the version.
> Unless there is something else I'm missing, I'm thinking that a C++ / WiX
> Installer developer could make relatively short work of this. I don't
> think there is going to be any scary C# / VSIX work. (Knock on wood.)
>
> ----------------------------------------
> From: "Christopher Painter" <chr...@iswix.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:04 PM
> To: wix-us...@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] Using WiX 3.7 Votive with VS2013 RC
>
> I wanted to pass on the results of a test I did today. I started with a
> Win7 VM with IE10 (prereq of VS) and VS2013. I then performed the
> following steps:
>
> Copy Files from a VS2010/VS2012 Dev Machine to the VM:
>
> [ProgramFilesFolder]WiX Toolset v3.7\bin
> IncludeFile.ico
> LocationFile.ico
> ProductFile.ico
> ProjectFile.ico
> WixLibraryFile.ico
> sconce2010.dll
> votive2010.dll
>
> [ProgramFilesFolder]Microsoft Visual Studio
> 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\WiX
>
> Edit the extension.vsixmanifest found in the above WiX directory and add a
>
> new section:
>
> <VisualStudio Version="12.0">
> <Edition>Ultimate</Edition>
> <Edition>Premium</Edition>
> <Edition>Pro</Edition>
> <Edition>Express_All</Edition>
> </VisualStudio> Open VS2012 Native Tools Comand Prompt and execute:
> devenv /setup
>
> Results:
> Help About shows Windows Installer XML 3.7 and File | New Project shows all
>
> the expected project types.
>
> I created a setup project and a c# custom action project. All seemed well.
>
> I then created a C++ custom action project. Intellisense gives me
> squigglies saying it can't find things like WcaInitialize but when I build
>
> the project it compiles.
>
> I hope this helps. I'm going to keep refining these procedures as I find
> issues.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher Painter
> ISWIX, LLC
> chr...@iswix.com
>
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