VS2010/Votive displays bal:Overridable as an attribute option for
Bundle/Chain/MsiPackage. While I did not find this attribute documented in
the Schema for MsiPackage (as it is for the Variable element) I wondered if
I could set it and then (just guessing) pass a property on the command line
to my WixStdBA and see if that property got added to this MsiPackage's
property list or the msi's command line. (I am aware the I can define a
Variable with bal:Overridable and use the variable to set a MsiProperty, but
I wondered why the bal:Overridable was offered as an attribute to
MsiPackage.)
When MsiPackage/@bal:Overridable="yes" if provided the following compile
error is observed:
"
C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.7\bin\candle.exe -dDebug -dDEBUG
-d"DevEnvDir=c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
10.0\Common7\IDE\\" -dSolutionDir=<project path>\ -dSolutionExt=.sln
-.......<wix tools>\WiX Toolset v3.7\bin\\WixBalExtension.dll" file1.wxs
file2.wxs file3.wxs file4.wxs file5.wxs
Windows Installer Xml Compiler version 3.7.1224.0
Copyright (C) Outercurve Foundation. All rights reserved.
file1.wxs
file2.wxs
file3.wxs
<path to >file3.wxs(76,0): error CNDL0005: The MsiPackage element contains
an unexpected child element 'MsiPackage'.
file4.wxs
file5.wxs
Done building project "QDsetup.wixproj" -- FAILED.
"
When I remove the MsiPackage/@bal:Overidable="yes" then the project compiles
and runs as expected. So I will leave this experiment alone and implement a
Variable/@bal:Overidable to address my need pass a property to the msi
package. But I wondered if this error message made sense to anyone?
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