Hi all, We have a custom action which processes rows in a custom table (the details of this don't matter, but suffice to say some code is run for each record). Currently we are using a CustomTable element in our wxs to implement this, and I think we could do better with a WiX extension. I want to write an extension that provides new <foo:Foo/> elements in the schema and causes data based on <foo:Foo/> elements in my source to be written to a Foo table.
I've been looking at this today, but the documentation is lacking. For starters, there are different types of extensions. I've played a little with BinderExtension in the past, and I think the best choice here is a CompilerExtension, but there's nowhere in the documentation which lays this out. More importantly, the kind of code you need to write to create an extension isn't explained. I've taken a look at the code for the Util extension and the Gaming extension, and there seems to be a pattern of creating a CompilerExtension, a DecompilerExtension and a WixExtension (though I'm not sure what the point of the latter is). There also seems to be a table definitions XML file and a messages XML file, but no clear indication of how this is used. The tables xsd doesn't seem to get installed when I install the toolset - is it safe to copy this into the Visual Studio schemas folder? I checked out the docs at http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/extension_development.htm and the tutorial at http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial but the tutorial doesn't mention anything about WiX (it may be slightly out of date with how prevalent extensions have become lately) and the official docs contain a sample on pre-processor extensions but not compiler extensions. Is there a blog post or something out there with more a complete walkthrough of how to develop something like a compiler extension? And if there isn't but I manage to figure it out anyway, is there a way to capture that so it can be shared (e.g, could I submit a change to the doc with a CompilerExtension sample)? I'm using Wix 3.6 at the moment Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
