Re: Customising Setup Projects

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Hi Phil,

Thank you for posting. And thanks for Pavel's answer. I totally agree with
him that post build event is suitable to your requirement. Other than that,
I have something to complement:

For how to customize your post build event, here is the instruction:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ke5z92ks.aspx
It also contains an example, I think you can follow it easily to build your
custom tool.

For troubleshooting the error in the post build event, please check the
guideline: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b0bktkzs.aspx
Although it is Visual C++ guideline, it has many common solutions to help
you to troubleshoot. For example:
" Add @echo on as the first command to see what your custom
build step is actually doing. The build events and build steps are placed
in a temporary .bat file and run when the project is built, so, you can add
error checking to your build event or build step commands.
" Run custom build steps and build events individually to
check their behavior.

One thing I want to mention that VS puts these commands in a batch file and
runs it. VS checks for build failures so it can tell you about them.
However - it only checks for a failure of the batch file that it created -
not for any failures within the batch file.
The solution for this limitation you can find it here:
http://geekswithblogs.net/dchestnutt/archive/2006/05/30/80113.aspx
Check for error after every meaningful step and add code at the end to
handle the error so VS will report it.

Hope it helps. Please let me know if you have any other concerns, or need
anything else.

Regards,
Hongye Sun (hongyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, remove 'online.')
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