#1291 VS References with short namespace

[Cliff Harker]

I think I have found an issue with WIX.

In my solution I try to keep project names short and only put the full namespace on the output files. So something like

Organisation.Application.Data
Oragnisation.Application.Data.DAL.Entity

would appear in my solution simply as

Data
Data.DAL.Entity

but the project properties would have the full namespaces on the output file etc

Now in VS when you click "Add Reference" and add a project reference, these will show up as

Data (Data\Data)
Data.DAL.Entity

Don't ask me why the one without a "." gets a bracketed qualification cos I have no idea.

Adding a reference to a WIX project does the same.

Now in my WXS file I have something like this

<file id="user-content-Data" name="$(var.Data.TargetFileName)" keypath="no" assembly="no" vital="yes" checksum="yes" source="$(var.Data.TargetPath)" --="">
<file id="user-content-Data.DAL.Entity" name="$(var.Data.DAL.Entity.TargetFileName)" keypath="no" assembly="no" vital="yes" checksum="yes" source="$(var.Data.DAL.Entity.TargetPath)"></file></file>

The $(var.Data.targetFileName) causes a compilation errors whereas $(var.Data.DAL.Entity.TargetFileName) works fine.

It seems these () qualified references break the "var" system in some way.

[Bob Arnson]

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