Visual Studio build and deploy ordering

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Published on 2010-05-19T12:04:16Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 12:10 UTC
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We have a VS 2010 solution that includes a few class library projects, a SQL Server 2008 database project and a Wix setup project. We are trying to get to a point where the following happens in the order specified:

  1. Build the class library projects and the database project
  2. Deploy the database project to generate the deploy .sql script
  3. Build the Wix setup project.

The reason for the desired order is that the setup project requires the deployment .sql scripts as it will use these to generate/update the database on the machine that the msi is run.

It seems that there is no way within a Visual Studio solution file to create this type of build/deploy/build order. Is this correct?

Thanks

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