Re: Having trouble with Wix V2 (title change)

Votive 2.0 hasn't been touched in over a year, so I'm not sure what the issues might be. Also, Votive 2.0 was designed primarily to work with Visual Studio 2003, although I think it also was supposed to work in VS 2005. Maybe with SP1 there were some changes. Actually, I know that's the case now that I think about it. SP1 moved a bunch of registry keys from HKLM to HKCU, so I bet Votive doesn't work on SP1. I'd like to say that we'll fix that, but we probably won't. J Sorry about that. I recommend one of the following: 1) move to Votive v3, which is more stable and more feature-rich, 2) use Visual Studio 2003 for Votive v2 development, or 3) uninstall SP1 for VS 2005. I know that these options may not be the best for you, for which I apologize, but Votive v2 is really not supported anymore.

Thanks,

Justin

Installing 1.1 SDK and .Net 3.5 fixed the build issue. Thank you.

However Votive still does not work. I am using Votive-2.0.5325.0.

Loading any wixproj project into VS it leaves the solution pane completely empty. It doesn’t even list the name of the solution.

When I load the WXS file directly, I get a dialog that says “Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt”

Brad Thompson.

Which version of Votive are you trying to use for your first problem? It was unclear whether you're using v2 or v3.

As far as the build failures go, Wix 2.0 requires the .NET Framework 1.1 SDK (which is different than the runtime). You're right in that the runtime is installed with the OS, but you actually need to install the SDK  as well (available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9B3A2CA6-3647-4070-9F41-A333C6B9181D&displaylang=en). For the 3.0 error, it looks like we might be requiring .NET 3.5, but that should be fixed. In the meantime, installing .NET 3.5 may help you get past that error.

Justin

I am having a couple of problems with Wix V2. They may be related. I’ve included my system configuration at the bottom.

First thing, I cannot get Votive to create a valid Wix project file.

Installation of Votive was successful (Version 5325). After installation, when I open Visual Studio I can see the new Wizard for creating Wix Projects. When I use the wizard to create a Wix project it has a problem.

The status bar says “Creating project “WixProject1.wixproj”…project creation was successful”, but there is nothing at all in the Solution Explorer. If I look at the WixProject1.wixproj file, it looks OK (see attached), but VS doesn’t do anything with it. Closing and reloading the project just gets “ready” in the status bar.

Secondly, I cannot compile the Delivery project.

dtools   debug  succeeded.

wix      debug  failed.

wix20    debug  failed.

WIX 2.0 fails to compile with: “Building WiX requires .NET Framework 1.1 SDK”. However, I know it is installed. It’s part of the OS.

Wix 3.0 fails with:

Using NANT from the C:\Delivery\Dev\wix directory:

     [exec] Build FAILED.

     [exec] C:\Delivery\Dev\wix\src\votive\SDK_VS2008\Tools\Build\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets(448,5): error MSB4062: The "CalculateZipItems" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\Delivery\Dev\wix\src\votive\SDK_VS2008\Tools\Build\Microsoft.VsSDK.Build.Tasks.dll. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Build.Utilities.v3.5, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, and that the assembly and all its dependencies are available.

     [exec]     0 Warning(s)

     [exec]     1 Error(s)

My configuration:

Windows 2003 Server

Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with all SPs

Installed packages:

{437AB8E0-FB69-4222-B280-A64F3DE22591} Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU

{15095BF3-A3D7-4DDF-B193-3A496881E003} Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0

{C25EF637-BE7A-4761-9B45-9069989C319F} Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Premier Partner Edition - ENU

{B43357AA-3A6D-4D94-B56E-43C44D09E548} Microsoft .NET Framework (English)

{7131646D-CD3C-40F4-97B9-CD9E4E6262EF} Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

{1862162E-3BBC-448F-AA63-49F33152D54A} Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite - ENU

{E027FE2E-3FF5-4DC9-A838-3F21CCF74EFE} Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer - ENU