[wix-users] WiX C# Custom Action - build failed

Hitesh Kesharia hitesh.kesharia at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 18:11:08 PST 2017


Thanks Justin for your response. Can yo please elaborate it? What steps I
should verify?

I have also tried sample code available here
https://github.com/egandro/wixmvc6. It gives the same error. Looks like
something is missing in my system. But unable to identify what is that.



On 23 February 2017 at 01:13, Justin Cox <cox.justin.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> Check to make sure it's in your assemblyinfo.   The Wix skeleton custom
> action tutorial is great checklist for tracking down one of the few minor
> things you might have missed
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 10:58 AM Hitesh Kesharia <hitesh.kesharia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to build the sample WiX Custom action using C#. I have
> created
> > the TestCustomActions project using 'C# Custom Action Project' template
> in
> > VS 2015 Community edition.
> >
> > I am not able to build it. It keeps throwing the following error -
> >
> > C:\Program Files
> > (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(3832,5):
> > error MSB3030: Could not copy the file
> > "C:\TestCustomActions\obj\x86\Release\TestCustomActions.CA.dll" because
> it
> > was not found.
> >
> > Looks like, unmanaged CA.dll is not getting generated. Any idea, what
> could
> > be the problem?
> >
> >
> >
> >    - Which version of WiX are you building with?
> >
> > 3.10.3.007
> >
> >
> >    - Which version of Visual Studio are you building with (if any)?
> >
> > VS 2015 Community Edition Update 3
> >
> >
> >    - Which version of .NET are you building with?
> >
> > .Net 4.5.2
> >
> >
> > --
> > Hitesh Keshaira
> >
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