Peter,
If Heat is exiting with an ArgumentNullException it seems likely that
you have caught a bug. I suggest making sure it is added to the tracker
(at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=642714&group_id=105970&func=browse
- I haven't checked to see if there is one entered already).
WiX is really not good (at least not yet) in scenarios where there are
large numbers of arbitrarily changing files. This is an intentional
design decision due to the Microsoft Installer component rules, and the
difficulties associated with creating component definitions which are
easy to service (apply patches to, etc). IGNORE THE COMPONENT RULES AT
YOUR OWN RISK! I thought Rob's blog (http://robmensching.com/blog/) had
quite a lot of details behind this decision, and some examples of what
could get messed up if the component rules are ignored but it appears I
was wrong. Having said that, you may want to read
http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/03/09/Windows-Installer-identi
fiers-must-be-stable.aspx, and the pages it links to.
The best mechanism, but as you have observed not an automated one, is to
educate your developers so they know that when they add a file to the
solution they also need to add a reference to the WiX source if the file
needs to be deployed. Sadly, in many (if not most) large team
environments developers don't concern themselves with setup.
Sorry I can't help with your immediate problem.
Regards,
Richard
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Subject: [WiX-users] telling WiX to get files from Team Foundation
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Hi WiX-Team,
I am new to WiX and testing it for about a week, because we need to
customize the standard Setup of Visual Studio for our webapplication.
The problem is that we got a pretty big webapplication (about 3000 files
and 200 folders to deploy) and we are using VS 2005 with Team Foundation
Server. So here is the problem concerning WiX, I was not able to find
any solution in WiX to told it to get every File of the Repository
folder (especially new checked-in files), the only thing I found was to
write to the wxs the folderstructure and then adding the files, but it
is really time consuming to do this and its not really an autobuild.
Also heat was not able to create a wxs file for me because it does
always exit with a System.ArgumentNullException. If I decompile the
setup of Visual Studio with dark it creates me a 2MB wxs file with no
real structure at all. So is there a possibility to solve this case, or
perhaps is there some kind of workaround or other technology that could
help me out, because I do not find a post in the mailing list concerning
this problem (or perhaps I was only not able to find it)
Regards,
Peter Huster
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