How to verify if the product code and product version have been updated using MSBuild support for Installshield

Question

I'm trying to build an InstallShield project with MSBuild and TFS 2013. I followed the steps required to override the product code as indicated here. First, I created an .isproj file and managed to generate the installer successfully. However, the product code seems not to be changed. I check the file setup.ini and noticed that the Product GUID still the same as the value of Product Code in the .ism file. Is there a way to verify that the product code and product version have been changed?

@Update

It worked finally, I was able to verify the newly generated product code using Orca.

Chris's script works perfectly as well!

Answer 1

This is how I do it:

In my ISM release view (build tab) I set the Release Location to \Installer instead of In my Path Variables I declare an ISBUILDDIR path variable and give it a default value of ISProjectDataFolder

<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build">
    <PropertyGroup>
    <MSIProductVersion>$([System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex]::Match($(TF_BUILD_BUILDNUMBER), "\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+"))</MSIProductVersion>
        <Configuration>Debug</Configuration>
        <InstallShieldProductConfiguration>ProductConfigName</InstallShieldProductConfiguration>
        <InstallShieldRelease>ReleaseName</InstallShieldRelease>
        <InstallShieldProductVersion>$(MSIProductVersion)</InstallShieldProductVersion>
    <MSIProductCode>$([System.Guid]::NewGuid().ToString("B").ToUpper())</MSIProductCode>
    <InstallShieldBuildDependsOn>PreBuild</InstallShieldBuildDependsOn>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <ItemGroup>
        <InstallShieldPathVariableOverrides Include="$(OutDir)">
            <PathVariable>ISBUILDDIR</PathVariable>
        </InstallShieldPathVariableOverrides>
    </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <InstallShieldPropertyOverrides Include="$(MSIProductCode)">
      <Property>ProductCode</Property>
    </InstallShieldPropertyOverrides>
  </ItemGroup>
    <ItemGroup>
        <InstallShieldProject Include="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\$(MSBuildProjectName).ism"/>
        <InstallShieldMergeModulePath Include="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\MSM"/>
    </ItemGroup>
  <Target Name="PreBuild">
    <Exec Command="attrib -s -h -r  /s &quot;$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\*.*&quot;" IgnoreExitCode="true" ContinueOnError="true"/>
  </Target>
    <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\InstallShield\2012\InstallShield.targets"/>
</Project>