visual studio 2008 - Automated-build version number with WiX, Inno Setup, and VS2008

Question

Basically what I need is an automated way to update the product version number in WiX (3.0 with Votive etc), and then get that version number into an Inno Setup "bootstrapper"

I pretty much have the process mostly automated, however version numbers still need to be updated manually which obviously isn't ideal, but I couldn't find how to pass in values to Inno Setup at compile time (and how to reference them), and in the WiX project I need to know how to reference the version number of a different project in the same solution in Visual Studio 2008

Answer 1

No need to pass anything! You can simply let the InnoSetup Preprocessor read the version info straight from the binary's version resource, e.g.:

#define AppName "My App"
#define SrcApp "MyApp.exe"
#define FileVerStr GetFileVersion(SrcApp)
#define StripBuild(str VerStr) Copy(VerStr, 1, RPos(".", VerStr)-1)
#define AppVerStr StripBuild(FileVerStr)

[Setup]
AppName={#AppName}
AppVersion={#AppVerStr}
AppVerName={#AppName} {#AppVerStr}
UninstallDisplayName={#AppName} {#AppVerStr}
VersionInfoVersion={#FileVerStr}
VersionInfoTextVersion={#AppVerStr}
OutputBaseFilename=MyApp-{#FileVerStr}-setup

Before version 5.4.1 (2011-02-09) ISPP was not included in the default InnoSetup package. You had to download the InnoSetup Quick Start Pack: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php#qsp (thanks @Gwyn, for the update)