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    copied!<p>In my Defines.wxi I have:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?define MajorVersion="1" ?&gt; &lt;?define MinorVersion="08" ?&gt; &lt;?define BuildVersion="11" ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>In my MyProject.Setup.wixproj I have:</p> <pre><code>&lt;OutputName&gt;MyProject&lt;/OutputName&gt; &lt;OutputType&gt;Package&lt;/OutputType&gt; </code></pre> <p>Is it possible to include the version variables in the filename somehow, so that my file can be named MyProject.1.08.11.msi?</p> <p>This didn't work (no such variable is defined): </p> <pre><code>&lt;OutputName&gt;MyProject-$(MajorVersion)&lt;/OutputName&gt; &lt;OutputType&gt;Package&lt;/OutputType&gt; </code></pre> <p>This didn't work (no such variable is defined):</p> <pre><code>&lt;Target Name="AfterBuild" Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Release'"&gt; &lt;Copy SourceFiles="$(OutputPath)$(OutputName).msi" DestinationFiles="C:\$(OutputName)-$(MajorVersion).msi" /&gt; &lt;/Target&gt; </code></pre> <p>It seems very clear to me that $(MajorVersion) is not the correct way of fetching the definition from the Defines.wxi file. What is?</p> <hr> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>I tried to put this in MyProject.Setup.wixproj:</p> <pre><code>&lt;InstallerMajorVersion&gt;7&lt;/InstallerMajorVersion&gt; &lt;InstallerMinorVersion&gt;7&lt;/InstallerMinorVersion&gt; &lt;InstallerBuildNumber&gt;7&lt;/InstallerBuildNumber&gt; </code></pre> <p>...</p> <pre><code>&lt;PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|x86' "&gt; &lt;OutputPath&gt;bin\$(Configuration)\&lt;/OutputPath&gt; &lt;IntermediateOutputPath&gt;obj\$(Configuration)\&lt;/IntermediateOutputPath&gt; &lt;DefineConstants&gt;PrebuildPath=..\..\obj\prebuild\web\;InstallerMajorVersion=$(InstallerMajorVersion);InstallerMinorVersion=$(InstallerMinorVersion);InstallerBuildNumber=$(InstallerBuildNumber)&lt;/DefineConstants&gt; &lt;/PropertyGroup&gt; </code></pre> <p>And this in Defines.wxi:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?define MajorVersion="$(var.InstallerMajorVersion)" ?&gt; &lt;?define MinorVersion="$(var.InstallerMinorVersion)" ?&gt; &lt;?define BuildVersion="$(var.InstallerBuildNumber)" ?&gt; &lt;?define Revision="0" ?&gt; &lt;?define VersionNumber="$(var.InstallerMajorVersion).$(var.InstallerMinorVersion).$(var.InstallerBuildNumber)" ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Didn't work either. Got these error messages:</p> <ul> <li>The Product/@Version attribute's value, '..', is not a valid version. Legal version values should look like 'x.x.x.x' where x is an integer from 0 to 65534.</li> <li>The Product/@Version attribute was not found; it is required.</li> </ul>
 

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