Include dll's in WiX msi base Installer

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gbbb picture gbbb · Apr 18, 2013 · Viewed 10.9k times · Source

I am currently making an Outlook addin in Visual Studio 2012, i create an Installer for my project, but in order for my addin to work on my clients computers i also need to add the SharePoint Foundation (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21786) dll’s, but when I try to add them from my C:\Windows\assembly folder to the WiX msi base installer Project\References - (by right clicking and pressing add Reference), I get the following error “A reference to [filepath] could not be added. Please make sure that the file is accessible, and that it is a valid WiX reference.“ Do you know what I can do ? thanks a lot for your help!

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BCran picture BCran · Apr 18, 2013

You need to add the files to Product.wxs - see http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_learning.htm . You only add .wixlib and other projects via references.

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