I am using the WIX binaries from a local folder instead of the common installation. So i had to overwrite my Paths like this:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<WixToolPath>$(TeamProjectBuildUtilsDir)Tools\WIX\</WixToolPath>
<WixTargetsPath>$(WixToolPath)Wix.targets</WixTargetsPath>
<WixTasksPath>$(WixToolPath)WixTasks.dll</WixTasksPath>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
It was working ok, but today i tried it again and get this:
System.IO.FileLoadException" in WixTasks.dll:
> Additional information: The file or assembly
> "file:///D:\Repos\MyProject\BuildUtils\Tools\WIX\candle.exe" or a
> dependency could not be found. To progress is not supported.
> (Exception of HRESULT: 0x80131515)
I am not very expirenced with WIX and don't know what to do. It worked fine.
My VS freezes after this build step.
If you downloaded the WiX binaries .zip, you need to "unblock" the file (remove the stream that indicates it was downloaded from the Internet). .NET won't load files that are marked as coming from the Internet.
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There is a classic application where Microsoft is used.Entity Framework Core.Sqlite, trying to publish an application through Windows 10 deployment and throws an exception: DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL "e_sqlite3": the specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
Tried adding e_sqlite3 library to " Windows application packaging Project", in end face with the exception: SQLite Error 14: 'unable to open database file' with EF Core code first
I tried different solutions found on the Internet, but not one I did not fit.
Development environment:
Windows 10, Visual Studio 2017, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite 2.2.1.0 and Microsoft.Data.Sqlite 2.2.1.0
Here's how I solved both issues.
The first issue is that the native e_sqlite3.dll files are not copied to the Package project's output. The Package project has MSBuild logic in Microsoft.DesktopBridge.targets that is calling the GetCopyToOutputDirectoryItems target of each of its referenced projects (e.g. a WPF project). Since the e_sqlite3.dll files are being included in the referenced project by way of a NuGet package, the way in which they are being included doesn't cause them to be picked up by the GetCopyToOutputDirectoryItems target. I've worked around this by adding the following code to my WPF project:
<Target Name="IncludeNativeBinariesAsOutput" BeforeTargets="GetCopyToOutputDirectoryItems">
<ItemGroup>
<Content Include="$(OutputPath)\x64\e_sqlite3.dll">
<Link>x64\e_sqlite3.dll</Link>
<CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</Content>
<Content Include="$(OutputPath)\x86\e_sqlite3.dll">
<Link>x86\e_sqlite3.dll</Link>
<CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</Content>
</ItemGroup>
<AssignTargetPath Files="#(Content)" RootFolder="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)">
<Output TaskParameter="AssignedFiles" ItemName="ContentWithTargetPath" />
</AssignTargetPath>
</Target>
The next issue is with the "unable to open database file" error after the necessary native files are where they need to be. I'm thinking this is because it's trying to create the project in a location that is not supported by a Windows Package project. I've handled this by setting a special value that that SqliteConnection looks for to construct a path for the database file. I just added this line to my App constructor class before doing any database operations.
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData("DataDirectory", ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder.Path);
I am trying to manually update a new csproj file to configure building for .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile.
This works correctly
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFrameworks>NET40</TargetFrameworks>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
but this generates an error
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFrameworks>NET40</TargetFrameworks>
<TargetFrameworkProfile>Client</TargetFrameworkProfile>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
'project.assets.json' doesn't have a target for
'.NETFramework,Version=v4.0,Profile=Client'.
Ensure that restore has run and that you have included
'net40-client' in the TargetFrameworks for your project.
Is it possible to use new csproj format e.g. <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk"> to build for .NET Framework Client Profile?
This worked for me:
<TargetFramework>net40-client</TargetFramework>
<TargetFrameworkIdentifier>.NETFramework</TargetFrameworkIdentifier>
<TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>
<TargetFrameworkProfile>Client</TargetFrameworkProfile>
There is a package for this, all you have to do is to replace the first line of your csproj with:
<Project Sdk="MSBuild.Sdk.Extras/2.0.54">
Then you have some new target frameworks available such as net40-client, so
<TargetFrameworks>net40-client</TargetFrameworks>
will now work.
See the project page (https://github.com/novotnyllc/MSBuildSdkExtras) if you want more information.
I'm working on a ClickOnce app that's set to online-only. I publish it to an internal IIS server, with an HTML page in the same directory that contains this link:
The deployment looks like so, with all files except the HTML page generated by my project's publish target:
MyAppName
-> Application Files
-> MyAppName_2213_20_0_65
-> <The published files>
-> default.html
-> MyAppName.application
When I click the link, the app runs immediately without any confirmation prompt, and I see from the about box that it's the old version. When I browse to the file share and launch MyAppName.application by double-clicking on it in Explorer, I get the prompt asking me if I'd like to run it, and then it downloads and I get an error:
Unable to install this application because an application with the same identity is already installed. To install this application, either modify the manifest version for this application or uninstall the preexisting application.
As part of the build process, I set the InstallUrl property of the project to http://ourserver/MyAppName/MyAppName.application. Is that wrong? Should it be the HTML page that contains the link? How is it determining the "identity" that's generating a conflict?
Since the app's online-only, it's not installed and doesn't show up in the Programs and Features control panel (and therefore that part of the error message doesn't apply).
I'm new to ClickOnce, so let me know if I left out some helpful information.
Update
If I run mage -cc from a Visual Studio command prompt, the new version launches instead of the old one.
Update 2
As I poked around more, I'm seeing something that looks wrong, and could be the problem. I see the following two lines in my MyAppName.application file (the deployment manifest):
...
<assemblyIdentity name="MyAppName" version="1.0.0.0" ...
...
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly dependencyType="install" codebase="Application Files\MyAppName_2213_20_0_65\MyAppName.exe.manifest" size="82044">
<assemblyIdentity name="MyAppName.exe" version="1.0.0.0" ...
...
You can see the mismatch above. It's deploying to MyAppName_2213_20_0_65, but it thinks the version number of the exe is 1.0.0.0. I'm not sure why it thinks that. My project includes a file that gets generated as part of the build with this line:
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("2213.20.0.65")]
Then, to set the published version number, I have this in my csproj file:
<Target Name="BeforePublish">
<GetAssemblyIdentity AssemblyFiles="$(TargetPath)">
<Output TaskParameter="Assemblies" ItemName="MyAppAssemblyInfo" />
</GetAssemblyIdentity>
<PropertyGroup>
<ApplicationVersion>%(MyAppAssemblyInfo.Version)</ApplicationVersion>
<InstallUrl>$(INSTALL_URL)</InstallUrl>
</PropertyGroup>
</Target>
Does the assembly version listed for my executable even matter? If it does, why is it stuck on 1.0.0.0, and could that be affecting the download of updated versions?
My second update put me on the right track. The problem was indeed the incorrect version number for the assemblyIdentity attributes. To fix it, I'm no longer using a BeforePublish target. Instead, I'm passing in the ApplicationVersion when I call MSBuild:
"%msbuild_path%" MyAppName.csproj /target:Publish /p:ApplicationVersion=%VERSION%
It's a WPF application, with Wix Installer.
I have resourceses folder and I want to include these files in the installer to put next to the executable. I solved generating a resources.wxs file with necessary information about the files under the resources folder using the heat tool. I managed to includ into the main wxs file. For that reason I modified the .wixproj file, adding a before build target action to generate the wxs and include it in the main wxs.
Concern: .wixproj is kind of hidden, there thing that you cannot modify from visual studio, like adding a before build action (pre build action is a different story)
Question: How can I extract the before build action into a separate file?
The before build action in the .wixproj:
<Target Name='BeforeBuild'>
<Exec Command='"%WIX%bin\heat" dir $(SolutionDir)resources -dr ResourcesDir -var var.ResourcesDir -cg ResourceFilesGroup -gg -g1 -sfrag -srd -out $(ProjectDir)Resources.wxs' />
<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include='$(ProjectDir)Resources.wxs' />
</ItemGroup>
You can extract it into a separate file—most project file types do that already. That's how they provide common targets to all projects of a type. A .wixproj has this:
<Import Project="$(WixVersionTargetsPath)" />
To augment your own, simply:
Create an XML file like:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<Target Name='BeforeBuild'>
<!-- tasks -->
</Target>
</Project>
Add an Import element inside the Project element and refer to that file:
<Import Project="custom.targets" />
If such a file primarily has Target elements, the convention is for it to have the file extension ".targets".
But there are two drawbacks with Visual Studio:
Visual Studio caches all the project file dependencies and runs the MSBuild internally. So, it you edit the external file, it won't be part of builds using Visual Studio until the project is next loaded. To quickly unload and reload a project, use the project context menu in the Solution Explorer. Workaround: Call MSBuild yourself.
When Visual Studio loads a project, if it includes non-standard external files, it gives a warning. (You can disable it per user by project file path, in the registry, if I recall.)
As an alternative to calling heat directly, you might want to look at the Harvest* targets that WiX provides. Note: As the documentation says, you don't invoke them directly (they're already invoked by the Build target); You simply add items to the ItemGroup they process and set properties they use.
I'm investigating to OpenNI SDK ant it's wrappers for .NET. So, I created MSBuild AfterBuild target to copy files from SDK folder (path from environment variable) to build output folder. Now build works on each computer (even if SDK isn't installed). But in this case build is very heavy.
Is there the way to create links to this files in solution? I need build to execute only for computers with installed SDK.
Add an Exists condition to the AfterBuild target, this would prevent the AfterBuild target from running.
<Target Condition="Exists('$(SdkLocation)')" Name="AfterBuild">
...
</Target>
You could also make a BeforeBuild target containing an Error task that will cause the build to break if the SDK is not detected.
<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
<Error Condition="!Exists('$(SdkLocation)')" Text="OpenNI SDK not found." />
</Target>
MsBuild should also be copying the SDK files to the output file if you've added References in the dependent projects. Are you copying extra files?