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Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and WiX?

Has anyone used WiX since 2010? I can't get my setup projects to work in 2010 and I can't find any information on how to get this to work / future support plans.

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Try to install the latest WiX 3.5. This is the VS2010 support version. I don't know if it has been updated for beta2, but there was a new one created 3 days ago .


EDIT : The link above will not work for Visual Studio 2010 after beta. For subsequent releases of Visual Studio 2010, use the latest version:



http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/

and select the latest version.

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which version of Wix are you using? last time i checked there were compatibility issues with wix> = 3, vow and visual studio.



you may need to create a custom assembly to load in 2010.

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As of Oct 26th, this is what I had to do to get it working:

Download the latest 3.5 http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.5.1023.0/

I hooked on Wix35_x64.msi, you grab another if you run 32bit. I'm not sure what the other (less obvious) files are for (I'm looking at you, ProjectAggregator2).

After installation, Wix project projects load (yay!) But don't build (boo) with an error stating that the path for Candle.EXE is not valid. Apparently it is still looking for "C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Windows Installer XML v3" on my system.

Created this directory and copied the contents of "C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Windows Installer XML v35" into it.

Now, apart from some build errors due to changes in some $ vars, it works.

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We added support for Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 last Friday. See http://www.joyofsetup.com/2009/10/30/wix-v3-5-supports-visual-studio-2010-beta-2/ .

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