Does WIX Thermal Utility work with Visual C ++ projects?

Question

I am just starting to use Wix and would like to use heat to extract the results from my Visual C ++ projects into the Wix source files. This seems to work fine for my C # projects, however, whenever I run heat in a C ++ project, I get an error:

heat project MyProject.vcproj -pog:Binaries -cg MyGroup -nologo -out MySource.wxs heat.exe : error HEAT5307 : Build failed. 

Is this supposed to work, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks

Answer 1

Not in Visual Studio 2008 and earlier. C ++ projects are not MSbuild projects (just shells around vcbuild.exe or something like that), so there is no introspection in these projects. This is pretty sad.

Rumor has it that the VC ++ team is fixing this in Visual Studio 2010, so I hope everything starts working there.