Re: InstallShield project in Visual Studio

InstallShield has integrated Source Control similar to Visual Studio and 
I am sure it is using the same hooks into the IDE client DLL.  I can add 
a InstallShield project successfully through the InstallShield 
development environment but I lose the ability to add references to 
Visual Studio project output if I don't do it through Visual Studio.  I 
have resigned myself to doing it outside of Visual Studio and including 
paths to project output manually.  This also has the disadvantage of 
using paths that are relative to my development machine.  Another user 
working on the same Install project would have to modify the paths if 
his environment is different.  I would really like to be able to do this 
through the Visual Studio environment but I keep getting that pesky 
"Unspecified Error".

I have a copy of VSS lying around at work so I will have to try it on 
Monday.

Ken Angell

Dan Schreiber wrote:

> We don't use InstallShield here, so we have not seen the error.
>  
> A few questions though:
>  
> 1. Can you add the solution outside the IDE (using Vault's standalone 
> client)?
> 2. If you use VSS as the source control provider, do you get similiar 
> results?
>  
> Dan Schreiber
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* [email protected]
>     [mailto:[email protected]]*On Behalf Of
>     *Kenneth Angell
>     *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2004 8:40 PM
>     *To:* Vault List
>     *Subject:* [vault-list] InstallShield project in Visual Studio
>
>     I am currently trying to add an InstallShield Developer project to
>     a solution under Vault Source control.  The addition fails when I
>     try to check the new project in (add it to Vault) with
>     "Unspecified Error".  The same happens if I create the project
>     outside of Visual Studio and then try "Add Existing Project".  Has
>     anyone had problems with deployment projects in using the IDE
>     client or does anyone have any experience with using InstallShield
>     projects in Visual Studio and VSS? 
>
>     Ken Angell
>     Application Architect
>     NET-Architect
>