[wix-devs] Running wix3 BurnUnitTest in VS2017

Joseph Musser me at jnm2.com
Thu Mar 23 09:43:32 PDT 2017


I have just now installed C++/CLI. Nothing has changed, same error message.

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:32 PM, Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com> wrote:
> Do you have C++/CLI component installed?
>
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> Subject: [wix-devs] Running wix3 BurnUnitTest in VS2017
>
> I have VS2017 Professional installed with "Windows XP support for C++."
>
> When I open /test/src /WixTests.sln, BurnUnitTest and DUtilUnitTest fail to load. The message logged is:
>
> Project 'BurnUnitTest' could not be loaded because it's missing install components. To fix this launch Visual Studio setup with the following selections:
> Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.WinXP
>
> This doesn't make sense to me because there is only one XP option that can be installed, and I have just installed it in order to get msbuild wix.proj to work (which it now does).
>
> Has anyone used VS2017 with WiX tests?
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