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

[Justin Cox]

Good point in the #1, it's part of the Wix tutorial, but I just seems to
add non-functional metadata to the output DLL.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017, 9:41 AM Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com> wrote:

> I spell out 10 reasons here..
>
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3560370/custom-action-in-c-sharp-used-via-wix-fails-with-error-1154
>
>
> As for your #1, I've never put that attribute in any of my custom action
> projects and it's not in the WiX template.  Maybe you are thinking of
> something else.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Justin Cox
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 8:52 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] WiX C# Custom Action - build failed
>
> The two biggest things people usually miss are:
>
> 1. Ensure this is in AssemblyInfo.CS (SampleWixExtension should be
> replaced with your project name/class)
> [assembly:
> AssemblyDefaultWixExtension(typeof(SampleWixExtension.SampleWixExtension))]
>
> 2. Ensure this is in <PropertyGroup> in the project's csproj file.
>     <WixCATargetsPath Condition=" '$(WixCATargetsPath)' == ''
>
> ">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\WiX\v3.x\Wix.CA.targets</WixCATargetsPath>
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:11 PM Hitesh Kesharia <hitesh.kesharia at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > > >
> > > > __________________________________________________________________
> > > > __ WiX Toolset Users Mailing List provided by FireGiant
> > > > http://www.firegiant.com/
> > > >
> > >
> > > ____________________________________________________________________
> > > WiX Toolset Users Mailing List provided by FireGiant
> > > http://www.firegiant.com/
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Hitesh Keshaira
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > WiX Toolset Users Mailing List provided by FireGiant
> > http://www.firegiant.com/
> >
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
> WiX Toolset Users Mailing List provided by FireGiant
> http://www.firegiant.com/
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
> WiX Toolset Users Mailing List provided by FireGiant
> http://www.firegiant.com/
>