Hi all,

I have some strange behaviour when creating a project using my GAT package. I have a project which site in the solutions\projects directory and the .proj files has a section like this:

<ItemGroup>

<Compile Include="*.wxs" />

<Compile Include="..\..\..\..\..\Common\WiX\Common.Web.wxs">

<Link>Common.Web.wxs</Link>

</Compile>

</ItemGroup>

which creates a link to a files in the project (the project is created in a standard location, so the relative path is OK). However, when I run the package and the project is created, the section magically changes to this:

<ItemGroup>

<Compile Include="*.wxs" />

<Compile Include="..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Documents and Settings\Common\WiX\Common.Web.wxs">

<Link>Common.Web.wxs</Link>

</Compile>

</ItemGroup>

I've no idea when it's got the Documents and Settings bit from, when I''ve created my project in the path: C:\Code\SETP_P2\Root\Src\Exchange\Enterprise Library\ExwebService1

Any ideas????

Hi Alex,

This is weird and I can think of anything that may be causing this from the top of my head...

Are you able to repro this behavior using a very simple package? If you could do so, I can ask my team to take a look at it and see if we can find out what's causing this...

thanks,
-Victor.

Victor,

I created a brand new guidance package, and appended the following to the console application project within the sample solution:

<ItemGroup>

<Compile Include="*.wxs" />

<Compile Include="..\..\..\..\..\Common\WiX\Common.Web.wxs">

<Link>Common.Web.wxs</Link>

</Compile>

</ItemGroup>

When I ran the package and create the sample solution the project was created with the following (i've included some extra lines around it).

<ItemGroup>

<Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />

</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup>

<Compile Include="*.wxs" />

<Compile Include="..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Documents and Settings\Common\WiX\Common.Web.wxs">

<Link>Common.Web.wxs</Link>

</Compile>

</ItemGroup>

I'm strapped for time today, but I'll try different filenames and see the effect on them tomorrow. Even when the path "..\..\..\..\..\Common\WiX\Common.Web.wxs"resolves to the file (the project is created in a directory which fits), it changes the include statement just the same.

Thanks

Hi Alex / Ivan,

Could you finally work around this? If you couldn't please let me know and I'll try to take a look at it.

thanks,
-Victor.

Hi Monesh,

How does your folder structure looks like?

I'll ask our team to look at this.

thanks,

-Victor.

hello everyone

I solved this problem.

I called the action and in the action I used

projectItems.AddfromFile("d:\test\hr\version\projectversion.cs")

Thanks

Hi Alex,

This is weird and I can think of anything that may be causing this from the top of my head...

Are you able to repro this behavior using a very simple package? If you could do so, I can ask my team to take a look at it and see if we can find out what's causing this...

thanks,
-Victor.

Thanks for the reply Victor, I will create a new package and see what behaviour that produces.

Further to this, I've built and installed my package on a collegue's computer and got different behaviour. The project markup looked like this after the package had run (it now has six sets of ..\ instead of the 5 in the proejct template):

<ItemGroup>

<Compile Include="*.wxs" />

<Compile Include="..\..\..\..\..\..\Common\WiX\Common.Web.wxs">

<Link>Common.Web.wxs</Link>

</Compile>

</ItemGroup>

More interestingly however, is the previous version (uninstalled) had 6 sets of ..\ ????

Will post findings later.

Victor,

I created a brand new guidance package, and appended the following to the console application project within the sample solution:

<ItemGroup>

<Compile Include="*.wxs" />

<Compile Include="..\..\..\..\..\Common\WiX\Common.Web.wxs">

<Link>Common.Web.wxs</Link>

</Compile>

</ItemGroup>

When I ran the package and create the sample solution the project was created with the following (i've included some extra lines around it).

<ItemGroup>

<Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />

</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup>

<Compile Include="*.wxs" />

<Compile Include="..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Documents and Settings\Common\WiX\Common.Web.wxs">

<Link>Common.Web.wxs</Link>

</Compile>

</ItemGroup>

I'm strapped for time today, but I'll try different filenames and see the effect on them tomorrow. Even when the path "..\..\..\..\..\Common\WiX\Common.Web.wxs"resolves to the file (the project is created in a directory which fits), it changes the include statement just the same.

Thanks

Hi Alex,

Have you found a solution for this problem ? We are experiencing the same issue and we have not yet figured out what to do ....

Thanks

Hi Alex / Ivan,

Could you finally work around this? If you couldn't please let me know and I'll try to take a look at it.

thanks,
-Victor.

Hello everyone,

I am also facing this problem.

My csproj file of Business Project is

<Compile Include="..\..\..\..\..\Version\ProjectVersion.cs">
<Link>ProjectVersion.cs</Link>
</Compile>

It build and registered successfully.

when I run newly created Guidance Package,

It changes to

<Compile Include="C:\Documents and Settings\Version\ProjectVersion.cs">
<Link>ProjectVersion.cs</Link>
</Compile>

Even I hard-coded my required path in .csproj file,but it again give the same i.e

C:\Documents and Settings\Version\ProjectVersion.cs.

I hope you peopleget the solution of this

Thanks

Hi Monesh,

How does your folder structure looks like?

I'll ask our team to look at this.

thanks,

-Victor.

Thanks Victor ,

I have an embedded structures of folders.My solution.vstemplate file is as shown:

<TemplateContent>
<ProjectCollection>
<SolutionFolder Name="HR">
<SolutionFolder Name="Portal">
<SolutionFolder Name="Folder1">
<SolutionFolder Name="Folder2">
<SolutionFolder Name="$ProjectName$">
<ProjectTemplateLink ProjectName="Portal.$ProjectName$.Business">Projects\Portal.TEST.Business\MyTemplate.vstemplate</ProjectTemplateLink>

</ProjectTemplateLink >

</SolutionFolder>

</SolutionFolder>

</SolutionFolder>

</SolutionFolder>

</SolutionFolder>

</ProjectCollection>

</Templatecontent>

And Here in Business Project's .csproj file

<Compile Include="..\..\..\..\..\Version\ProjectVersion.cs">
<Link>ProjectVersion.cs</Link>
</Compile>

My Folder structure is as follow:

HR->Portal->Folder1->Folder2->TEST->Portal.TEST.Business

->Version->ProjectVersion.cs

Important:The Version folder and ProjectVersion.cs fileis added through custome action

Thanks

Hello victor

Really this is strange problem.I have 12 projects,that arelinks through my solution.vstemplate file

One of my.csproj file looks like

<Compile Include="..\Version\ProjectVersion.cs">
<Link>ProjectVersion.cs</Link>
</Compile>

when I run newly created Guidance Package,

It changes to

<Compile Include="C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\lzlrnolq.v3w\Version\ProjectVersion.cs">
<Link>ProjectVersion.cs</Link>
</Compile>

in place of

C:\Documents and Settings\Version\ProjectVersion.cs(That I get at business Project)

Thanks

Hi Monesh,

Could you post the code snippet what you're using to add the ProjectVersion.cs item to your project? I think that there you've the issue.

jose.

hello jose,

Thanks for seeing my problem.

here is my action file which is used to create directory structure

IDictionaryService dictionary = (IDictionaryService)GetService(typeof(IDictionaryService));
String FrameworkLocation = (String)dictionary.GetValue("Framework") + "\\HR";
String SolutionLocation = (String)dictionary.GetValue("destinationdirectory") + "\\HR";
Directory.CreateDirectory(SolutionLocation + "\\Version");
File.Copy(FrameworkLocation + "\\Version\\ProjectVersion.cs", SolutionLocation + "\\Version\\ProjectVersion.cs");

Framework is my custom argument,

destinationdirectory give the location of newly created project

Above code works fine,and file projectversion.cs is copied at exact location that I want.

Thanks

Hi Monish,

I think that it is due to issue with <link> tag in GAT.

When GAT unfold your project,it is looking for link file, which is not the part of particular project, hence it is not copied with project template. Normally <link> tag is used where we want to use a file in multiple projects. So that file is not become a part of any project but link is used in each project.

Please remove <link> tag and try again. I hope your issue will resolved.

Thanks

Ajit

hello Ajit

Thanks for seeing this problem.

I already try this but this not work

Victor/jose have u find the solution for this

Guide me

Thanks

hello everyone

I solved this problem.

I called the action and in the action I used

projectItems.AddfromFile("d:\test\hr\version\projectversion.cs")

Thanks