Native DLL Dependency Excluded From Managed Custom Action

[claybrooks]

Wix v4

My managed custom action has nuget package references which includes Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI.x86.dll. Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI.x86.dll is a native dll and seems to be getting skipped by the utility that generates the *.CA.dll.

In order to work around this issue, I've copied Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI.x86.dll to a location and added it as a content file with "Copy Always" enabled to my custom action project. This seems to get it packaged with the installer.

Is there a better way to do this? It seems like native dlls, especially when it's a transitive dependency, is an issue for SDK style projects in general.

[chrpai]

Pre nuget what your doing was the way. I'd say write this up as an issue and see if there's anything the WiX team can do to auto include these.