It looks like you're copying in all the DTF support files into a subdir as
well. I was trying to just use the preinstalled locs.
To each their own. It'd be pretty easy to make an msbuild action out of
MakeSfxCA since it's all managed code anyway. I'm sure it'll come along
soon enough.
Chris
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Christopher Painter <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --------
>>
>> <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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