[wix-users] (no subject)

[Christopher Painter]

This is one of the reasons I suggest keeping your application code in one sln and your installer code in another solution.    It is quite common for one of two things to happen over the years:


1) App devs are eager to try the latest  but  installer tool stack  ( WiX , IsWiX, InstallShield )  isn't supported on the new version yet.

2) Developers need to stay on a legacy version of VS but there is no reason for the installers to.



Other reasons for separation are:


1) Simplifies  project build order.  All dev code is built before any installer code is built.

2) Hierarchy organization of source tree

3) Separation of responsibilities.  (Risk: Avoid silos though)




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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Hoover, Jacob via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
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2008 is basically dead...

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RobMensching.WiXToolset
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You could use an older version of WiX, but it would contain bugs and unpatched security holes.  Why not upgrade to a supported version of Visual Studio?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search?alpha=Visual%20Studio%202008%20(all%20editions)

Mainstream ended in 4/9/2013, and extended support ended 4/9/2018.

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Any updates on VS 2008 support?

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 8:34 PM SRINIVAS S.N.S via wix-users < wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> This is regarding building wix projects using VS 2008.Can anyone
> please guide me how to load wixproject in VS2008,I am getting the
> error not able to load wixproject
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