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scoy / KoduGameLab

3D game development tool for teaching basic programming concepts to kids.
MIT License
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.wixproj and .wapproj info #27

Open echads opened 1 year ago

echads commented 1 year ago

I see the email for support. Saving that for more pressing questions. :-)

I was able to open the main branch in visual studio pro 2010 on an old PC that already been used for XNA development and build a debug.

However I can't sort out how the .wixproj and .wapproj projects open. I did install the included WiX installer. It seemed to do stuff on a VS2015 I had installed.

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I opened BokuSetup in a higher VS but when I tried to build it, it complained about a missing SourceDir. I tried creating the folder and built it again and the folder was removed in the build process. Seems like maybe some instructions are needed.

scoy commented 1 year ago

The WiX setup should have added those project types for VS2010. I have a machine I can try it on here. Which version of Windows are you running?

echads commented 1 year ago

I was on Win 8.1 but have Windows 10 too. I had the old VS2010 for Windows Phone installed by it didn't support project files. So I went ahead and setup VS2010 Pro. I wasn't sure what problems I would run into trying to get XNA installed on Win 10 so went with where I had it first. Thanks for checking it out. Esp. interested in the UWP build option if that exists. I assume that wouldn't be available in VS2010.

scoy commented 1 year ago

XNA should have no trouble on Win10. I'm not sure if the UWP build ever actually worked. When I originally uploaded Kodu to GitHub I just grabbed everything instead of trying to trim it down to the minimum needed. At the time of the UWP build we were trying to figure out the best way to get a build into the Microsoft Store. Microsoft has since made this much easier with the MSIX Packaging Tool which allows you to take pretty much any desktop app and bundle it up so that it works with the store. Did switching to VS2010Pro solve the WiX project issues? Right now, I'm resetting Windows on a spare PC I have so I'll have a clean slate to try the install on. I'll try and take good notes so I can update the instructions.

echads commented 1 year ago

Great! VS2010Pro was what allowed a successful build and debug run without WiX. [I've never used Wix before.] The two pictures on the first note are what happened when I opened the solution with VS2010Pro. I was still able to build without the 2x WiX projects. It may be that the WiX installer only saw my VS2015 (also on the same machine.) I'll be interested to know if it works on your clean slate.