[wix-users] Issue with Heat & MSBuild

[Ven H]

Can anyone please help with this? I searched a lot, but could not find any
solution.


On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 9:19 PM Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Visual Studio 2019 Professional and Votive for 2019 installed. I
> have WixToolSet v3.11.2 also installed. When I open an existing solution
> (provided by a customer), with WiX Project and try to build it, I am
> getting the following error. In the PreBuild event, they are calling the
> Heat command. Can anyone please help? I think the project was built long
> back with WiXToolSet v3.8.
>
> error HEAT5316: Failed to load MSBuild wrapper object: Could not load file
> or assembly 'Microsoft.Build, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
> PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system
> cannot find the file specified.
>