[wix-devs] Running wix3 BurnUnitTest in VS2017

[Joseph Musser]

Alright, no problem. The recommended version of Visual Studio would be
a great addition to http://wixtoolset.org/development/building-wix/.


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:
> In general, VS2017 is not supported for building the WiX toolset source code yet. There is work to enable it in WiX v4 but I don't expect we'll ever bother to do so in WiX v3.
>
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> 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?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Behalf Of Joseph Musser
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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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