Is WiX 3.7 supported?

[Allon Guralnek]

Should MsiExt 1.3 work with WiX 3.7? When I try to add WixCommonUiExtension.dll via the VS2010 Add Reference dialog box, it says that a reference could not be added, and to make sure "that it is a valid WiX reference". When I try to use it via the command line (with the -ext switch), it fails with "error LGHT0144: The extension 'C:\...\WixCommonUiExtension.dll' could not be loaded because of the following reason: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///c:\...\WixCommonUiExtension.dll' or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)".

Do I need to downgrade to WiX 3.5 for MsiExt 1.3 to work?

 

Thanks.

[Daniel Doubrovkine]

This probably needs a bit of work. It would be great if you could fork msiext and try to upgrade it to Wix 3.7. I'll gladly take a pull request.

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[Allon Guralnek]

I haven't the slightest idea how to do that. I only started using WiX a few days ago. If it only involves managed code (C++ is not my strong suite) and if you could point me in the right direction, I'd be glad to fork it and push back my fixes.

 

In any case, what is the last version of WiX that MsiExt 1.3 supports? 3.5 or 3.6?

[Daniel Doubrovkine]

Start by checking out the code and making sure you can build the project. It would be great if you could contribute a paragraph to the readme on what needs to be installed for a dev environment - I will help you with issues - but basically "build all" from a command prompt should build everything.

Once you can build, then I would just try swapping wix 3.5 for 3.7. I think the interfaces are the same, so whatever that produces should be usable as is.

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Allon Guralnek <allon.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

I haven't the slightest idea how to do that. I only started using WiX a few days ago. If it only involves managed code (C++ is not my strong suite) and if you could point me in the right direction, I'd be glad to fork it and push back my fixes.

 

In any case, what is the last version of WiX that MsiExt 1.3 supports? 3.5 or 3.6?

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[Daniel Doubrovkine]

Currently MsiExt was built and tested with 3.5, but I believe I heard a rumor that it still works with 3.6. The custom actions definitely do, but wix extensions load some wix DLLs.

[Matt Olson]

Did you resolve this? I'm getting the same error message while trying to add the custom action DataSource.dll.

[Allon Guralnek]

Sorry, I never got the chance to work on it. I've since changed my workplace so it's not really on my list.

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[Pat O'Shea]

I see the same behavior too.  I found if I unload the project and manually add the xml for the reference it circumvents the "that it is a valid WiX reference".

[Stephen Tunney]

I've just finished working on a fork that supports 3.7 but requires VS 2012.  I can make the repo public if you would like

stunney/msiext

[Daniel Doubrovkine]

Try to make pull requests so I can get that stuff merged. If it's possible to make a separate PR for VS 2012, that would be great.

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[Manfred Schenk]

I would also appreciate having a 3.7 compatible version merged and not a standalone one in another repo. But a second public repo woulkd be better than to have no 3.7 compatible version at all.

Are there any updates on this issue?

Manfred

[Daniel Doubrovkine]

I still didn't see a proper pull request with Wix 3.7 support, but stunney/msiext repo has it (and a bunch of other things). I'd appreciate if someone could wrap that up into something that I can merge, otherwise you have to wait a bit till I get to it.

[Per Lund Bovbjerg]

Is there any update on when this update for Wix3.7 can be expected to be merged into msiExt?

I tried downloading Stunney/msiext and building it, but it keeps crashing my msbuild.

Anyone else had luck building stunneys/msiext?

/Per

[Daniel Doubrovkine]

I already have merged it. All tests pass & co, so try making a build from master. I am happy to make a release soon, but might take me a bit of time.

[Per Lund Bovbjerg]

Thanks for the reply answer Daniel.

I tried downloading the msiext master and building both via VS2010 and just running build all commandline, but both failed for me, with not finding cl.exe.

Got different errors though when using stunneys version, it seemed to come much further (having no problems with cl.exe).

It has been 12 years since i last played around with c++, so that doesn't make it more easy.

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[Daniel Doubrovkine]

I made a build, http://code.dblock.org/downloads/msiext/msiext-1.4.810.daily.zip. I had some tests failing, so this is by no means anything stable, will take a look at some point soon.