I need to be able to change the PublishUrl property in my Excel VSTO project's csproj file in order to manage which publish url is used based on the configuration that is set in the configuration manager. This needs to happen regardless of what the developer enters in the Publish Wizard or the project properties window. I really need to control it at the point of publishing, based on the configuration set. I have found no solutions that work and it seems that this would be more common than I am finding.
I think this article will help you. You can create a small script to re-sign the files, and when you do that, you can set the URL. The article shows an example (but w/o the URL -- it's just another option available when using mage).
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is anybody aware of a way to apply (as in write or transfer) the settings of a Visual studio property sheet to the actual properties of the project (so they appear explicitly in .vcxproj file)?
I would like to load in a property sheet, transfer the settings to the "real" project's properties (not inherit the settings from the sheet!) so I can remove the property sheet afterward again.
Does the VS IDE allow this?
I am looking for a clickable solution, not a manual transfer.
Thanks in advance
There is no built-in way to do this though you could program an extension or external executable (which is easy to invoke as External Tool in VS) to do this, using e.g the Project class. But it is not that trivial: what do to when conflicting properties are found? Replace them? Combine them? Moreover it sort of defeats the entire purpose of propertysheets which is having a reusable set of options for building.
I am using Advanced Installer with Visual Studio 2010.
I managed to create an .aip project, but when I want to add the files from the relevant VS projects, I have to choose the exact location of these files.
I want to use more then one build configuration so I can use config transforms to change my .config files depend on the build configuration I choose.
This is a problem for me because when I compile in Debug the .exe & .dll files goes to bin\Debug, but when I compile in, lets say, Staging these files goes to bin\Staging.
How can I get Advanced Installer to get the right files, meaning get them from the target folder of the build configuration I chosen?
Advanced Installer does not support this by default, but with a little bit of tweaking you can get this working. Let me explain how:
the first requirement is to have your output folders generated by VS in the same parent folder, as you have them both placed in "bin\".
now you need to open your project in Advanced Installer GUI and do the following:
create two builds in Media page, called Debug and Staging
create a property called "Configuration" or what name would you like, from Install Parameters page
in the New Property dialog you will have options to set per-build values for your property. Set them to "Debug" and "Staging", i.e. the names of the folders created by VS
now go to File -> Options -> Path Variables and define a new path variable with your full path for the debug/staging, the one you current have in the project.
from the Home tab, in the toolbar, use the "Convert Paths" wizard and then save the project.
Now, it comes the tricky part, you will need to edit the project file in a text editor, like Notepad++, capable of saving the file in UTF-8 format. Once you open the file look for this XML node:
<COMPONENT cid="caphyon.advinst.msicomp.AppPathsComponent">
<ROW Name="BIN_DIR" Path="<your path>\bin\Debug" Type="2" Content="0"/>
You might have multiple variables here if you are already using this feature. You need to edit the value and replace "Debug" with "[|Configuration]".
Now you can save and build the project and it should pickup the correct files for each of the two builds.
I need to change the start URL of a project. When I set the start URL on the property page, it gets written to the csproj.user file and not the csproj. I tried putting the <StartExternalURL> in the csproj in the <WebProjectProperties> section, but that did not work.
Is there any way I can set that property and propagate it to the entire team, or is everyone just going to have to make the change manually?
You should add the csproj.user file under source control. When everyone checks it out, their start URL will be set correctly.
Hi by mistake I added cv210d.lib, cxcore210d.lib and highgui210d.lib as inherited values under the project configuration->Linker->input->Additional Dependencies settings.
But I cannot seem to remove them from the "inherited" additional dependencies. So each time I start a new project I get an error because these liberties cannot be found.
There is an option to ignore the inherited dependencies but I cannot do this as it contains values I do need.
So I am looking for a way to remove these unwanted values from the "inherited" additional dependencies.
You can find the file "Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.user" on your system and manually edit it as you want. Normally the file will be located at "C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSBuild\v4.0" location. It is an xml file.
As was suggested I modified the property sheet in the property manager.
The reason I found it confusing though was that in the Property Manager view, there are three different ways to change the properties. Through clicking on the debug, release property sheets or the project properties . But when I opened each one I thought I was opening the same thing, as they look similar.
But the case is that, the properties from the debug and release property sheets are inherited to the project properties. And you cannot modify the inherited properties from the project properties.
Did you accidentally add it to "Linker > Input" under "Property Manager > AnyProject > AnyConfiguration > Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.user"?
Despite its strange position, this is the setting for all projects of the current user.
As soon as you put a wrong .lib file into Additional Dependencies it went to the inherited directory. You need to untick "Inherit from parent or project defaults". Then, to save inherited .lib files (such kernel.lib and etc.) you need to copy and paste all of them into the Additional Dependencies directory. So your computer cannot take the wrong .lib file and will use only Additional Dependencies which you wrote
You can open with notepad the .vcxproj file of your project and find the lib you want to remove. Then, Delete that library from the xml field.
I am building a VS 2010 installer, and I want to copy files to app folder depending on what options I select in UI (UI is not simple, so the only option is to show custom dialogs in Install custom action).
The problem is that custom action is actually executed after files are copied already.
One possible solution I can think of is to install all these files into the app dir, and then delete some unnesessary files in custom action. But these files are "secure" in some way, so I don't want to copy them to filesystem, even for a short period of time.
Any thoughts?
If your files shouldn't ever be on the filesystem, you have a problem in the requirements. The .msi storage itself is an open format and can be read by many tools, so if someone knows the file it's possible for them to find and extract it manually.
I agree that it's better to avoid deleting the files after they've been installed for two reasons. One: it avoids wasted work, and two: it won't cause repair scenarios due to missing files that Windows Installer thinks should be present. You should probably figure out how to determine whether these files should be present at an earlier stage of the installation, and set properties that cause this to happen (disable components by condition, or change feature states).
Most controls in MSI dialogs use installer properties. For example, a checkbox may use a property named MY_CHECKBOX which is set to a value or it's empty, based on whether the checkbox is checked or not.
These properties can be used to condition files:
select your setup project in Solution Explorer
click File System Editor button from Solution Explorer top pane
select the file you want to condition
in its Properties pane set Condition field to the condition you want, for example
MY_CHECKBOX = "value"