tag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:/discussions/problems/626-added-a-visual-studio-install-project-and-now-and-getting-errors-during-buildAppVeyor: Discussion 2018-10-19T08:16:40Ztag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-05T11:35:47Z2014-08-05T11:35:47ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>That's correct, vdproj is not supported by msbuild, it's not
even an XML. Microsoft just backported original Web and Deployment
projects to VS 2013. The only known hack to build vdproj on a
server was calling <code>devenv.exe</code>, but AppVeyor build
workers have Visual Studio Express editions installed which don't
have devenv.exe.</p>
<p>I would switch to WiX - vdproj doesn't provide any complex
functionality and it could be ported to WiX in hours. There are
tons of ready WiX projects on GitHub that can be used as a
sample.</p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-07T17:47:53Z2014-08-07T17:47:53ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>I've used WiX before, didn't care much for it, my real question
is how do I tell<br>
AppVeyor to ignore this project? At the moment nothing will build
because it's seeing the .vdproj file, is there a way to
ignore/disable the Installer project?</p></div>erictag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-07T17:55:55Z2014-08-07T17:55:55ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>Open solution's Configuration Manager in Visual Studio and
disable that project from build for required configuration.</p>
<p>Also, set <code>TimberWinR.sln</code> as project on Build tab of
project settings.</p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-08T18:36:57Z2014-08-08T18:37:26ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>Hi, I bit the bullet and added a Wix project, but it doesn't get
built? I looked through the<br>
docs and don't see any way to enable it?</p>
<p>It is selected to be built in all configurations.</p>
<p>What am I missing.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p></div>erictag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-08T21:44:20Z2014-08-08T21:44:20ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>Hi Eric,</p>
<p>You mean you have WiX project enabled on solution's
Configuration Manager and it still doesn't get built? Have you
tried building that solution locally. Make sure that it's enabled
in correct configuration and it's set on build settings.</p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-08T22:49:04Z2014-08-08T22:49:04ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>That's correct it builds<br>
Fine locally both release and debug<br>
Nothing happens in appveyor</p>
<p>Sent from my iPhone</p></div>erictag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-08T23:09:36Z2014-08-08T23:09:36ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>Are you getting any errors?</p>
<ul>
<li>Feodor</li>
</ul></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-09T00:07:27Z2014-08-09T00:07:27ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>Nope it just doesn't build<br>
The wiz project<br>
It builds the app and runs tests<br>
And nuget</p>
<p>No wix</p>
<p>Sent from my iPhone</p></div>erictag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-09T00:09:51Z2014-08-09T00:09:51ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>OK, will take a look.</p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-09T00:37:57Z2014-08-09T00:37:57ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>I've made a simple test solution with WiX installer: <a href=
"https://github.com/FeodorFitsner/wix-test">https://github.com/FeodorFitsner/wix-test</a><br>
Building WiX project works: <a href=
"https://ci.appveyor.com/project/appvyr/wix-test/build/1.0.2">https://ci.appveyor.com/project/appvyr/wix-test/build/1.0.2</a></p>
<p>Most probably, it's just not visible in your log because there
is "Minimal" log verbosity.</p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-14T13:16:28Z2014-08-14T13:24:50ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>Awesome! Thanks for the great support, one last question, is
there a nice way<br>
to rename the generated .msi file to contain the version
number?</p></div>erictag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252014-08-14T15:09:22Z2014-08-14T15:09:22ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>I think you can do this in PowerShell in "after build" section,
or you can have a different file name in cloud storage while
pushing artifact: <a href=
"http://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-worker-api#push-artifact">http://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-worker-api#push-artifact</a></p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252015-06-24T21:52:38Z2015-06-24T21:52:39ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>We recently received an error when trying to build our Visual
Studio 2013 solution which contained a Visual Studio Installer
Project. The error was: "Project file
"BillingServiceInstall.vdproj" is not a valid MSBuild project file
which must be an XML." See the following link: <a href="https://ci.appveyor.com/project/toolwatch/tw-soap-1tau3">https://ci.appveyor.com/project/toolwatch/tw-soap-1tau3</a>
.</p>
<p>Is there any way to update the AppVeyor Visual Studio 2013
environment to support the latest Visual Studio Installer project
recently released by Microsoft? I realize that WIX is a viable
alternative but replacing our Visual Studio 2013 installer projects
with WIX would take a significant amount of development time and
effort.</p>
<p>Microsoft seems to be serious about supporting Visual Studio
Installer Projects in 2013 and 2015. See <a href="https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-be59-0fbf6151054d">
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-b...</a></p></div>Tom Moriartytag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252015-06-25T03:01:28Z2015-06-25T03:01:28ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>That extension for vdproj is already installed on build workers.
You just need to use <code>devenv.exe</code> (full path is
<code>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"</code>) to build your .vdproj or
solution file: <a href="https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-us/0ec5951d-d194-449e-8d59-705706ec888a/building-setup-project-vdproj-from-command-line">
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-us/0ec5951d-d19...</a></p></div>Feodor Fitsnertag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/340258252018-01-18T06:57:23Z2018-01-18T06:57:24ZAdded a Visual Studio Install Project and now and getting errors during build.<div><p>Hello, I am too late but I just got a page that can solve some project files issues. I am not sure it is helpful or not for your question because our project file issues are different. Here for you <a href="http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/vproj-to-mp4.html">http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/vproj-to-mp4.html</a></p></div>buhleloisarto