Like you say each to his own but I have wasted a ridiculous amount of time sorting out the mess Visual Studio deployment projects make of auto harvesting.
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Michael Powell [mailto:mwpowel...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 February 2012 20:10 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Harvesting dll's referenced in a c# project in VS Personally, each to his own I suppose. Professionally, I'm not being paid to sit on top of my resource references (DLLs and such) that tightly. I want to harvest them. On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>wrote: > Not that I am aware of, personally I am not a big fan of automatic > harvesting as it leads to more issues than it's worth. I tend to just > use heat directly as a one off to generate a wxs file that I then > manually manage. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Terje Sandstrom [mailto:te...@hermit.onmicrosoft.com] > Sent: 02 February 2012 20:57 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Harvesting dll's referenced in a c# project > in VS > > Thanks ! > > Surprising, but..... > > What is the workaround ? There is a workaround, right ? > > > Best regards > Terje > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] > Sent: 2. februar 2012 21:24 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Harvesting dll's referenced in a c# project > in VS > > Unfortunately heat doesn't harvest referenced assemblies in a project. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Terje Sandstrom [mailto:te...@hermit.onmicrosoft.com] > Sent: 02 February 2012 19:02 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Harvesting dll's referenced in a c# project in VS > > Hi! > > I'm pretty new to the toolset so bear with me :) > > I'm using 3.5, and am trying to harvest the dll's from the c# > project, using the property Harvest set to true in Visual Studio. > I do get a ComponentGroup named xxxxx.Binaries, but it don't contain > any of the dll's that my project is referencing, something I did > expect. It does harvest a lot of other stuff, so I would guess it > would do these dll's too, which are kind of the more important ones. > Is there something special one need to turn on for these to be > harvested too ? > > > best regards Terje Sandstrøm > > Chief Software Architect > Inmeta<http://www.inmeta.com/> Visual Studio ALM MVP< > https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=805E36BF-F29F-4FF6-8908-223F > 3666EE9C> geekswithblogs.net/terje<http://geekswithblogs.net/terje> > Twitter: @OsirisTerje Skype: osiris_terje > (+47) 95750354 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft > developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus > HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. 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