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Assembly (C#) installed as merge module

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Assembly (C#) installed as merge module

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Hello list,

what I'm trying to achieve - but am not able to :-( is the following:

I have a VS 08 project creating an assembly / dll (C#) which is
basically one of our basic dlls.
For this dll I created a merge module.
I then went ahead and created a "SDK" consuming this merge module and
installed it.
This actually is no problem - but the installed dll was not available
in VS 08 as a reference - I had to pull in the dll manually. Is there
some way to push VS 08 to know where the dll is?

So I created an app which consumed the dll - but while I wanted to do
the installer I figured: how do I pull in the merge module of the dll
in the application installer? It is not installed when installing the
SDK.

Any ideas what I should / can do?

To sum it up:

BasicLib merge module (wxs containing a module)
- BasicLib.dll

BasicLib SDK (wxs containing a product and merging the above)
- BasicLib merge module
- docs
- ...

--> BasicLib available in VS 08 as reference

App
- ref to BasicLib.dll

App installer (wxs)
- ref to merge module - but how to install it so I can address it here?

Is all that even possible using Wix? Or am I simply asking too much? :-)

regards,
Florian

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Rob Mensching-7

Re: Assembly (C#) installed as merge module

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The ASP.NET MVC project had a similar set of requirements. You might look at
how they solved this in the 1.0 release.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Florian Schricker <[hidden email]>wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> what I'm trying to achieve - but am not able to :-( is the following:
>
> I have a VS 08 project creating an assembly / dll (C#) which is
> basically one of our basic dlls.
> For this dll I created a merge module.
> I then went ahead and created a "SDK" consuming this merge module and
> installed it.
> This actually is no problem - but the installed dll was not available
> in VS 08 as a reference - I had to pull in the dll manually. Is there
> some way to push VS 08 to know where the dll is?
>
> So I created an app which consumed the dll - but while I wanted to do
> the installer I figured: how do I pull in the merge module of the dll
> in the application installer? It is not installed when installing the
> SDK.
>
> Any ideas what I should / can do?
>
>
> To sum it up:
>
> BasicLib merge module (wxs containing a module)
> - BasicLib.dll
>
> BasicLib SDK (wxs containing a product and merging the above)
> - BasicLib merge module
> - docs
> - ...
>
> --> BasicLib available in VS 08 as reference
>
> App
> - ref to BasicLib.dll
>
> App installer (wxs)
> - ref to merge module - but how to install it so I can address it here?
>
>
> Is all that even possible using Wix? Or am I simply asking too much? :-)
>
>
> regards,
> Florian
>
>
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Florian Schricker

Re: Assembly (C#) installed as merge module

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Hi!

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Rob Mensching <[hidden email]> wrote:
> The ASP.NET MVC project had a similar set of requirements. You might look at
> how they solved this in the 1.0 release.

Ok but looking at the sources provided I find them stripped of any
deployment projects. Unfortunately.

So maybe I'll just step down using merge modules. After some more time
wading through docs I found them not to be liked that much anyway for
different reasons (upgrades, patches).

regads
Florian

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Rob Mensching-7

Re: Assembly (C#) installed as merge module

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I always prefer wixlibs when possible:
http://www.robmensching.com/blog/posts/2008/10/10/What-are-.wixlibs-and-why-would-you-use-them

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Florian Schricker <[hidden email]>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Rob Mensching <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
> > The ASP.NET MVC project had a similar set of requirements. You might
> look at
> > how they solved this in the 1.0 release.
>
> Ok but looking at the sources provided I find them stripped of any
> deployment projects. Unfortunately.
>
> So maybe I'll just step down using merge modules. After some more time
> wading through docs I found them not to be liked that much anyway for
> different reasons (upgrades, patches).
>
> regads
> Florian
>
>
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