Hi, I had the same itch to scratch a while ago so I wrote a tool I called Paraffin to make my life easier.
The overview to the tool: http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/10/21/wix-a-better-tallow-paraffin.aspx More on updates to Paraffin based on requests: http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2009/06/28/paraffin3-1-new-and-improved.aspx http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2010/05/11/paraffin-3-12-a-bug-fix-and-three-new-features.aspx The latest version: http://www.wintellect.com/CS/files/folders/8198/download.aspx Hope you find it useful. - John Robbins >-----Original Message----- >From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] >Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:31 AM >To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >Subject: [WiX-users] VS2010 automated build > >Hello everyone, > >I was wondering: >what is the "best" way to autogenerate fragments for a visual studio project? >-by including it as a reference (and set harvest to TRUE) in your .wixproj, you >can't get the referenced libraries. >-by doing heat.exe on the bin directory of the project, you get files not >needed, i.e .pdb files -by doing it manually, well...that means every time i >change the c# project, i have to do it all over again... > >Any ideas? > >p.s: is HEAT going to add the referenced libraries in the fragment of the c# >project the uses them (and is referenced in .wixproj) in wix 3.5 stable >release? > >I'm using latest build of wix 3.5 and vs2010 > >Regards, >Stelios > >-- >Stelios Kyprou >Systems Engineer >Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) >www.formicary.net > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for >the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. >Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. > >Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar >Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT >number >747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has >been >maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or >interference. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint >What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? >Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first >_______________________________________________ >WiX-users mailing list >WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
