[wix-devs] NuGet support for wixlibs

[John Cooper]

Yes, I regularly open my wixproj files in Visual Studio 2015.  I have had no problems do so.  There have been issues adding files to wixprojs in VS 2015.

I put my props file in the tools directory of the package.  Contents look like:

<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <ItemGroup>
    <WixLibrary Include="ESACAWixLib">
      <HintPath>$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)ESACAWixLib.wixlib</HintPath>
      <Name>ESACAWixLib</Name>
    </WixLibrary>
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>

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John Merryweather Cooper
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From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Heath Stewart
Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2016 11:41 AM
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Have you tried opening a .wixproj in VS? Once a .props/.targets file is imported and directly adds to an <ItemGroup>, the project no longer loads. That's what I was doing internally until we actually opened in VS, which is when we needed to start adding a target to add them during build.

Heath Stewart
Visual Studio, Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths

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From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of John Cooper
Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 4:05 PM
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https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fborgsdemons.com%2fblog%2f2014%2f09%2f30%2fwalk-through-of-creating-a-wix-wixlib-nuget-package%2f&data=01%7c01%7cHeath.Stewart%40microsoft.com%7c4c74f7cd79c6491c948a08d346e54aa4%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=dkFfQzGqMQgdCKbIlGmiT1AEdffH5bH1uhOKV%2fT0tDg%3d 

I use a props file with the Wixlib Reference which is then imported.

I've got some improvements that make the upgrade process less painful on VS 2015.  I'll be posting them when I get some cycles.

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John Merryweather Cooper
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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Tom Glastonbury
Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 3:32 AM
To: wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org
Subject: [wix-devs] NuGet support for wixlibs

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This is about using NuGet packages to distribute wixlibs, and follows on
from:

https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwindows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com%2fNuGet-support-for-wixlibs-extensions-td7598683.html&data=01%7c01%7cHeath.Stewart%40microsoft.com%7c4c74f7cd79c6491c948a08d346e54aa4%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=ntOouL8pgjh0fTKBZLkgI39G%2fPRnBYFfGmwxATl3was%3d

I'm not sure if WiX has grown built-in support for this since that thread was posted, but I failed to find anything despite vigorous Googling. We needed this functionality in-house at my workplace, so I created a NuGet package that, when added to a WiX Library project, extends the build process to produce a NuGet package that can be added to a WiX project, adding a reference to the wixlib. In case it might be useful for others, I've put the project on github and published the generator package to nuget.org. The project is called WixNuGetPackager.

https://github.com/zanyants/WixNuGetPackager
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.nuget.org%2fpackages%2fWixNuGetPackager&data=01%7c01%7cHeath.Stewart%40microsoft.com%7c4c74f7cd79c6491c948a08d346e54aa4%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=7k2U9Hjixo%2ftvtW5ridXW%2ba7vpMBgP%2bOUXCY6PDXOTw%3d

See the github project homepage for details of use, and notably a disclaimer regarding limited test scenarios.

Thanks,

Tom
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