slomicka1.5524944395478203E12 asked a question.
Visual Studio 2010 integration and CI builds
Our suite has about 40 products in it. Each product has its own install or ism file. We are using TFS2010 and the TFS rangers best practices for branching. When we do a feature branch from our main line all the install (ism) files get branched as well. The paths are all wrong. They point to the main line source not the feature branch source. I understand how “Path Variables” work and can get the installs to build in your IDE. We also use your stand-alone build on our build server and I can solve the pathing problem if I use command lines arguments.
Currently I build the source using a VS2010 solution then run the standalone build. Ideally what I would like to do is have one VS2010 solution with our source and an install project as a single solution. I’m not sure or its not obvious how much control I have over the included build project in the solution. How can I set things like the “Path Variables” and “Output Folders” if I am using InstallShield integrated into Visual Studio? Is this even supported – using the standalone build product from with a Visual Studio solution on a build server?
Thanks in advance…
Any suggestions are appr,
Steve
Steve
The lack of support is frustrating to say the least. :(
In their PDF, http://www.installsite.biz/en/desc/ix/rn_IS2011_exp_en.pdf it says: " You can also use Team Foundation Build to compile, test, and deploy your InstallShield projects and your Visual
Studio solutions on a regular basis, or on demand. Your installation is automatically updated with your latest
source files every time that your solution is built. "
That is pointless if the installer is always the same version. :(
The reason I post in your thread is it seems as if we're the only few actually working with Installshield and TFS 2010. Look at all the other threads in this forum with only 1 view and 0 replies. :(
*sigh*
Hope your deployment isn't going as difficult as ours is.
we are also working with TFS.
Our builds are made nightly.
It is a pity there is not any documentation about building setups
using TFS. There is NULL about configuration of TFS and IS.
I might have finally made some progress, but of course lack of documentation and new errors keep coming up.