Migrating project from wix3 to wix6 and getting error for WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS

[speedycat2110-maker]

I am migrating my wixsharp project from wix.3.11 to wix.6.0.2

I have added below NuGet package references to my wixsharp project.

<PackageReference Include="WixToolset.Sdk" />
<PackageReference Include="WixSharp_wix4" />
<PackageReference Include="WixSharp_wix4.bin" />

And my compiled .wxs has below directory structure.

<Wix xmlns="http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs">
  <Package Compressed="yes" ProductCode="xxx" Name="xxx" Language="1033" Version="xxx.xxx.xxx" UpgradeCode="xxxx" Manufacturer="xxx" InstallerVersion="400">
    <SummaryInformation Codepage="Windows-1252" />
        <Directory Id="WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS" Name="WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS">
......................
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        <PropertyRef Id="WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS" />

I am getting below error for
The identifier 'Property:WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS' could not be found. Ensure you have typed the reference correctly and that all the necessary inputs are provided to the linker.

Do I need to add http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs/util namespace to get this property? How can I add it to compiled .wxs using wixsharp?
Any suggestion would help.

[oleg-shilo]

From your WXS it looks like WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS is meant to be one of the standard WiX folders. So it would need to be converted to Wix4+ to:

 <StandardDirectory Id="CommonDocumentsFolder">
   <Directory Id="My20Company" Name="My Company">

However, WiX does not support such a standard folder:

error WIX0021: The StandardDirectory/@Id attribute's value, 'CommonDocumentsFolder', is not one of the legal options: 'TARGETDIR, "AdminToolsFolder, "AppDataFolder, "CommonAppDataFolder, "CommonFilesFolder, "CommonFiles64Folder, "CommonFiles6432Folder, "DesktopFolder, "FavoritesFolder, "FontsFolder, "LocalAppDataFolder, "MyPicturesFolder, "NetHoodFolder, "PersonalFolder, "PrintHoodFolder, "ProgramFilesFolder, "ProgramFiles64Folder, "ProgramFiles6432Folder, "ProgramMenuFolder, "RecentFolder, "SendToFolder, "StartMenuFolder, "StartupFolder, "SystemFolder, "System16Folder, "System64Folder, "System6432Folder, "TempFolder, "TemplateFolder, "WindowsFolder'.

Thus, I am not really sure what you are trying to do.
I also checked and adding util (project.Include(WixExtension.Util);) does not change anything.
WiX compiler still does not recognise the documents folder.
Thus the answer will be in the WiX documentation. If you find it, please share and I will incorporate it into teh WixSharp build workflow.

[oleg-shilo]

If you want your install dir to be discovered at runtime, then you can use the same approach as in the AbsolutePath example:

        var project = new ManagedProject("MyProduct",
                          new InstallDir(@"C:\%placeholder%)",
                              new File("setup.cs")));

        project.UI = WUI.WixUI_ProgressOnly;
        project.ManagedUI = ManagedUI.Default;

        project.Load += (SetupEventArgs e) =>
        {
            if (e.Session["INSTALLDIR"].Contains("%placeholder%"))
                e.Session["INSTALLDIR"] = Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonDocuments.ToPath();
        };

        project.BeforeInstall += (SetupEventArgs e) =>
        {
            MessageBox.Show("e.InstallDir: " + e.InstallDir, "BeforeInstall");
            e.Result = ActionResult.UserExit;
        };

        Compiler.BuildMsi(project);

If indeed it is what you want and you also need to support UI. We can have a look at that as well.