WixProj msi output name

[Bevin7]

I have a wix proj, I want to give the name to the output msi.I have tried using but it does seem to be available according to this schema http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003.

[joeloff]

In v5 it will default to the project name, because it's an SDK style project. If you need to customize the name you need to either copy/move the final output in an AfterTargets="build" target, or override the OutputName and OutputPath properties.

Assuming you had something like "Foo.wixproj" that produced Foo.msi and Foo.wixpdb, you could set InstallerPath to "Bar.msi" and it will move the old output to the new path.

<Target Name="RenameOutput" AfterTargets="Build">
  <ItemGroup>
    <TargetOutputsToRename Include="$(TargetPath)" RenamedTargetPath="$(InstallerPath)" />
    <TargetOutputsToRename Include="$(TargetPdbPath)" RenamedTargetPath="$(InstallerPath.Replace('.msi', '.wixpdb'))" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <Move SourceFiles="@(TargetOutputsToRename)" DestinationFiles="%(RenamedTargetPath)" />
</Target>

[robmen]

Did you try opening the project in HeatWave and using the project properties to change the name? That updates the .wixproj with the correct syntax. I'd be curious why that wouldn't work.

[joeloff]

In my case, the values are computed during the build so I can't specify it as properties - I'd have to set it in a target. I ended up just passing the output name as a property to the .wixproj when it's built