Oh, and look in the Output pane for the Build output. It will show you more information than the Error List pane.
Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Digital Channels Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -----Original Message----- > From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:12 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Light OutOfMemory? > > I'm using Visual Studio 2010. Your mileage may vary with other versions of > Visual Studio. > > 1. Click the Tools menu > 2. Select the Options... menu item > 3. Expand the Projects and Solutions category in the left pane 4. Select the > Build and Run option > > The right side of the Options dialog should now contain two options at the > bottom: > * MSBuild project build output verbosity: Minimal > * MSBuild project build log file verbosity: Minimal > > Try setting these options to Detailed. There is a Diagnostic verbosity but in > my opinion the formatting makes it difficult to follow what's going on. > > I don't know where Visual Studio put the build log file or whether there's > another setting to make Visual Studio create one so changing the "MSBuild > project build log file verbosity" setting might not provide any value. > > Edwin G. Castro > Software Developer - Staff > Digital Channels > Fiserv > Office: 503-746-0643 > Fax: 503-617-0291 > www.fiserv.com > P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:32 AM > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Light OutOfMemory? > > > > I issue the build from Visual Studio and it is undoubtedly calling > > MSBuild under the covers but I am not sure how to coerce Visual Studio > > to give up more information than the information about the exception. > > Also it doesn't happen all the time. I could get this exception with > > Visual Studio and then go to a command prompt and invoke MSBuild > > manually and it would work. Most of the time just restarting Visual > > Studio causes it to work. It is one of those intermittent errors that > > when they happen you wish you had the debug information available > because repeating it does not cause the error. > > > > Kevin Burton > > Senior Software Engineer > > BUYSEASONS > > 262-901-2000 Office > > 262-901-2312 Fax > > kev...@buyseasons.com > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:09 AM > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Light OutOfMemory? > > > > Which version of WiX v3.5? We didn't start dropping .pdbs until WiX v3.6. > > However, actually, I don't think we need them. Is there more > > information available about the crash? There should be a callstack. If > > you're running from MSBuild, turn logging on, the stack trace should be in > there. > > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Kevin Burton <kev...@buyseasons.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I am using 3.5. Where is the .pbs? I was not able to find a file > > > with that suffix in the installation directory. > > > > > > Kevin Burton > > > Senior Software Engineer > > > BUYSEASONS > > > 262-901-2000 Office > > > 262-901-2312 Fax > > > kev...@buyseasons.com > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:24 PM > > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Light OutOfMemory? > > > > > > What version of the WiX toolset are you running? If its a recent > > > build, can you drop the .pdbs next to light and get a full callstack? > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Kevin Burton > > > <kev...@buyseasons.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I have WiX integrated with Visual Studio so the installer is built > > > > when the solution is built. 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