I took the lazy way out for now with a postbuild event since Jason has said
proper templates will be coming. I decided to add DTF to the filename for
uniqueness. My goal was to isolate the dependencies and wire it up as a
standard C# class project without any particularly special plumbing.
$(ProjectDir)SDK\MakeSfxCA.exe $(TargetDir)$(TargetName).DTF.dll
$(ProjectDir)SDK\sfxca.dll $(TargetPath)
$(ProjectDir)SDK\Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll
$(ProjectDir)ExternalAssemblies\AxLibrary.dll
I also wrote a few blogs on the topic if you are interested. ( Can you tell,
I REALLY like DTF )
http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2008/05/price-of-ideology-and-great-new-hope.html
http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2008/05/deployment-tools-foundation-dtf-custom.html
http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2008/05/data-driven-cas-made-easy-with-dtf.html
Christopher Karper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh yeah, also note, this depends on you having a file named
CustomAction.config in your project. I great improvement would be to have it
check for the file's existence before including it. :-)
YMMV.
Chris
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Christopher Karper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've got the DTF wrapper bit running as a simple exec task by adding the
following to the end of my project file for the CA dll.
It uses the project output and appends an _Sfx to it to mark it as the wrapped
version. It's brute force, and it steals from the wix.targets file....
Pay special attention to the DTFBin Property. you can find a better way to
populate it, or just change it to point to your installation. I had to build
the DTF myself and disable a bunch of the signing to get this to work, since
MakeSfxCA.exe wasn't included in the binary distro for this release.
It's uglybut hey, if someone wants to use it/improve it, be my guest.
Chris
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<Target Name="AfterBuild">
<CallTarget Targets="MakeSfxCA" />
</Target>
<!--
From the Wix.targets file - CMK
Several properties must be set in the main project file, before using this
.targets file.
However, if the properties are not set, we pick some defaults.
-->
<PropertyGroup>
<!-- Not a good way, but it works for me. This should use registry
search, the same way the wix.targets does -->
<DTFBin>c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\sdk\</DTFBin>
<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == ''
">Debug</Configuration>
<Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)'=='' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
<OutputPath Condition=" '$(OutputPath)' == ''
">bin\$(Configuration)\</OutputPath>
<!-- Ensure any OutputPath has a trailing slash, so it can be
concatenated -->
<OutputPath Condition=" '$(OutputPath)' != '' and
!HasTrailingSlash('$(OutputPath)') ">$(OutputPath)\</OutputPath>
<_OriginalOutputType>$(OutputType)</_OriginalOutputType>
<OutputType Condition=" '$(OutputType)' == '' ">Library</OutputType>
</PropertyGroup>
<PropertyGroup>
<!-- Example, bin\Debug\ -->
<OutDir Condition=" '$(OutDir)' == '' ">$(OutputPath)</OutDir>
<!-- Ensure OutDir has a trailing slash, so it can be concatenated -->
<OutDir Condition=" '$(OutDir)' != '' and
!HasTrailingSlash('$(OutDir)') ">$(OutDir)\</OutDir>
<!-- Example, MyCA -->
<ProjectName Condition=" '$(ProjectName)' == ''
">$(MSBuildProjectName)</ProjectName>
<!-- Example, MyCA.csproj -->
<ProjectFileName Condition=" '$(ProjectFileName)' == ''
">$(MSBuildProjectFile)</ProjectFileName>
<!-- Example, .csproj -->
<ProjectExt Condition=" '$(ProjectExt)' == ''
">$(MSBuildProjectExtension)</ProjectExt>
<!-- Example, c:\MyProjects\MyCA\ -->
<ProjectDir Condition=" '$(ProjectDir)' == ''
">$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\</ProjectDir>
<!-- Example, c:\MyProjects\MyCA\MyCA.csproj -->
<ProjectPath Condition=" '$(ProjectPath)' == ''
">$(ProjectDir)$(ProjectFileName)</ProjectPath>
<!-- Example, MyCA -->
<TargetName Condition=" '$(TargetName)' == ''
">$(OutputName)</TargetName>
<!-- Example, MyCA.dll -->
<TargetFileName Condition=" '$(TargetFileName)' == ''
">$(TargetName)$(TargetExt)</TargetFileName>
<!-- Example, MyCA_Sfx.dll -->
<TargetSfxName Condition=" '$(TargetSfxName)' == ''
">$(TargetName)_Sfx$(TargetExt)</TargetSfxName>
<!-- Example, x86, x64 -->
<TargetArchitecture Condition=" '$(TargetArchitecture)' == ''
">x86</TargetArchitecture>
<!-- Example, c:\MyProjects\MyCA\bin\Debug\ -->
<FullOutDir Condition=" '$(FullOutDir)' == ''
">$(ProjectDir)$(OutDir)</FullOutDir>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="MakeSfxCA">
<Exec Command=""$(DTFbin)MakeSfxCA.exe"
"$(FullOutDir)$(TargetSfxName)"
"$(DTFbin)$(TargetArchitecture)\SfxCA.dll"
"$(FullOutDir)$(TargetFileName)"
"$(ProjectDir)CustomAction.config"
"$(DTFbin)Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll"
"$(DTFbin)Microsoft.Deployment.Resources.dll"" />
</Target>
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