[wix-users] Transform for HarvestDirectory Visual Studio{

[KONDURU Pavan]

Hi Steve,

What I do in VS is declare the Preprocessor variables in the "Build" tab(in the properties window of VS for the WIX project). You can declare multiple variables by ";" separation.
Then I add a BeforeBuild target in the .wixproj. Here is an excerpt my existing project which works:

<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
    <HeatDirectory NoLogo="$(HarvestDirectoryNoLogo)" SuppressAllWarnings="$(HarvestDirectorySuppressAllWarnings)" SuppressSpecificWarnings="$(HarvestDirectorySuppressSpecificWarnings)" ToolPath="$(WixToolPath)" TreatWarningsAsErrors="$(HarvestDirectoryTreatWarningsAsErrors)" TreatSpecificWarningsAsErrors="$(HarvestDirectoryTreatSpecificWarningsAsErrors)" VerboseOutput="$(HarvestDirectoryVerboseOutput)" AutogenerateGuids="$(HarvestDirectoryAutogenerateGuids)" GenerateGuidsNow="$(HarvestDirectoryGenerateGuidsNow)" OutputFile="myProj.wxs" SuppressFragments="$(HarvestDirectorySuppressFragments)" SuppressUniqueIds="$(HarvestDirectorySuppressUniqueIds)" Transforms="HeatXSL.xslt" Directory="C:\staging_dir " ComponentGroupName="ComponentGroupHelp" DirectoryRefId="MY_DIR" KeepEmptyDirectories="false" PreprocessorVariable="var.staging_help" SuppressCom="%(HarvestDirectory.SuppressCom)" SuppressRootDirectory="true" SuppressRegistry="%(HarvestDirectory.SuppressRegistry)">
    </HeatDirectory>
  </Target>


So here my pre-processor variable that I declared is "staging_help".

--Pavan

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Steven Packer
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 10:26 AM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Subject: [wix-users] Transform for HarvestDirectory Visual Studio{

Hi,



I have created a VS .wixproj and have added a Harvestdirectory to the Target of the project.  I have been successful in harvesting the files and building the msi.  However I am using PreprocessorVariable of wix.mysource which generates

!(wix.mysource)\???.



I am trying to write a transform that will substitute !(bindpath. For !(wix.
I am having a great deal of trouble figuring out how this is done.  I am new to wix and .xsl.  Can anyone give me an example of how I might accomplish this task?



Steven




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