Yeah, VS and MSBuild and Votive conspire in evil ways to prevent the value from coming back in a way that you can edit. You can actually get into this same situation with C# projects.
You have to edit the .wixproj (or .csproj is you mess up your C# project, like I did once) to fix it. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Eric Teutsch <er...@powersoft.ca> wrote: > I've got an undefined preprocessor variable in my .wxs file, but when I > entered it into the "Define preprocessor variables: edit box as > var.Variable=abc it made no difference. I then tried the probably really > wrong way of > > $(var.Variable)=abc > > At this stage the Votive editor wouldn't let me undo this change. Anything > I tried produced the error message: > > The expression """.Variable" cannot be evaluated. Method > 'System.String.Variable' not found > > All I could do is close the project without saving it. > > > > PS: Figured out now that I'm supposed to declare it as simply > > Variable=abc > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content > authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image > Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
