[wix-users] Issue with Heat & MSBuild

[Bevan Weiss]

That version number for Microsoft.Build doesn't seem to match with Visual Studio 2019.

So what version of Visual Studio was used for the project originally?
It seems you have a fixed reference to an old MSBuild somewhere.

Do other WiX projects work fine? (With/without Heat)

Have you tried to google for the problem?


Regards,
Bevan

24 Dec 2021 00:42:26 Ven H via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>:

> 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.
>> 
> 
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