How can I have a single code base and multiple products? I am using WIXgen, ASP. C#

[17feb79]

How can I have a single code base (Product.sln) and multiple products (PROD1-Website A & PROD2-Website B)? I am using WIXgen tool for MSI Packaging. And my IDE is ASP.net 2008, C#.

My pages will have some specific changes for each product. That I can achieve using conditional compilation (#if, #elif, #else, and #endif)

E.g.
Product.sln -> Default.aspx.cs

#if (PROD1)
  Response.Write("This is PROD1 – Website A");
#else
  Response.Write("This is PROD2 – Website B");
#endif

So to be precise what I need is, I need to have two build definitions and that will run over same solution, and it must create different DLLs (say for e.g. PROD1.DLL & PROD2.DLL) for each product and build the MSI. So when i try to create MSI for the first product my DLL should come out with that specific code and vice versa

How can I do this ? Help and any suggestions are highly appreciated…

Thanks & Regards
Sree

[Frinavale]

Are you having problems with producing two different DLLs?

• Right click on the project and select Properties
• Go to the application tab and edit the Assembly information so that it corresponds with the appropriate build
• Go to the Compile tab and specify the name of the DLL that is the result of the build.

Or are you having problems with defining the pre-compile variables?

• Right click on the project and select Properties
• Go to the Compile tab and click Advanced Compile Options
• Under the Compilation Constraints section, define your variables

[17feb79]

Thanks Frinavale....

instead i am going and changing the assembly name Manually, is there any way that i can change it dynamically ?

[Frinavale]

I'm sure there is...

I have one code base for two versions of a website also...but I usually do this manually when I build everything.

-Frinny