Enumerate Setup Project Files

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WALDO - 17 Jul 2006 14:28 GMT

Is there a way to enumerate the files of a Setup Project (.vdproj) ? I'm
writing a neat little add-in that will automagically zip up the contents a
project. I've got regular projects under control.

For example, I have a setup project, where I have a custom banner bitmap for
each of my dialogs. It was added by right-clicking on the project node in
the Solution Explorer, and seleccting Add-->File. I want to get a listing of
those types of files.

I'm not above parsing the actual vdproj file, but if there's an automation
model, that would hekp a lot.

Any ideas?

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Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

WALDO

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Sergey M - 17 Jul 2006 17:27 GMT

> I'm writing a neat little add-in that will automagically zip up the
> contents a project.

Something like DPack's Solution Backup feature? <vbg>

> Is there a way to enumerate the files of a Setup Project (.vdproj) ?

I personally found CM implementation of setup projects lacking. The
best I was able to do is to zip up the project file itself.

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WALDO - 17 Jul 2006 21:09 GMT

Yes, I'm building an add-in which does a similar task.

I am packaging up the vdproj file, but I want the referenced files, too.
Maybe I will parse the vdproj file. It looks seemingly easy.

Unless anyone knows of any COM classes I could utilize, this will probably
end up being my approach.

>> I'm writing a neat little add-in that will automagically zip up the
>> contents a project.
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> I personally found CM implementation of setup projects lacking. The best I
> was able to do is to zip up the project file itself.

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Sergey M - 18 Jul 2006 04:23 GMT

> Yes, I'm building an add-in which does a similar task.

I've had great success with OSS .NET Zip library called #ziplib.
Thought it might come in handy for you:
www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/

> I am packaging up the vdproj file, but I want the referenced files,
> too.
> Maybe I will parse the vdproj file. It looks seemingly easy.
>
> Unless anyone knows of any COM classes I could utilize, this will
> probably end up being my approach.

Yeah, if I was that determined I'd start with COM and then move onto
parsing the file manually. Something tells me you'll end up with the
later approach.

Good luck.

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