I don't think WiX v3 works at all in VS2010. The Visual Studio teams changed *a lot* (again) and there is a lot of code going into Votive in v3.5 to support it all. MSBuild 4.0 support is apparently particularly broken/different.
Also, I think I've convinced everyone to not completely drop support for VS2005 from Votive v3.5 but it will definitely be last on the list things to test and bugs to fix. It is apparently very hard to support multiple versions of Visual Studio and VS2005 has some particularly nasty behaviors that make it difficult to work with. That's why there are so many more VS2005 related bugs than VS2008. To be clear, going forward VS2010 will be getting most of the development attention, followed closely by fixing any regressions in VS2008 support as VS2010 comes on line. VS2005 support will be maintained after those two efforts. If I was to guess at percentages of effort applied to each version, I expect it'll look something like this: VS2010: 80% VS2008: 15% VS2005: 5% There is simply not a lot of interest in trying to make Votive work better on VS2005 due to the pain involved. <sigh/> Neil Sleightholm wrote: > Do you know whether it works at all in the betas of VS 2010? > > The problem I have is that we still need VS2005 support and would like one > version for 2005/2008 and 2010 and I believe you are dropping VS2005 support > in WiX 3.5. > > Neil > > Neil Sleightholm > X2 Systems Limited > n...@x2systems.com <mailto:n...@x2systems.com> > > > ________________________________ > > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] > Sent: Fri 29/05/2009 09:40 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 2010 > > > > No, WiX v3 does not support VS2010. It will ship before VS2010 is released. > > VS2010 support is coming in WiX v3.5. > > Neil Sleightholm wrote: > >> Could anyone tell me whether WiX3 supports Visual Studio 2010 - I assume >> that as it was going to be included with VS2010 it supports it to some level >> but is it officially supported? >> >> Neil >> >> Neil Sleightholm >> X2 Systems Limited >> n...@x2systems.com <mailto:n...@x2systems.com> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT >> is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet >> the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & >> iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian >> Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
