title: Building WiX on Visual Studio Team Services times out
body: <p>I have an existing XAML build I am porting over to Visual Studio Team Services build. There is a Solution file that contains two wixproj projects, and this builds with no issues on the current (legacy XAML) Hosted Build Controller (which uses <code>WiX Toolset v3.7</code>).</p>
  
  <p>In VS TS, I created a new build process and added a step to <strong>Build solution</strong> using a <em>Visual Studio Build</em> step. I have set the Solution path to my sln that contains the two wixproj projects. All the other options are the defaults except the timeout which is set to 10 minutes.</p>
  
  <p>The build step initiates but times out after calling the Light.exe step, as in the log below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>PrepareForBuild:
    Creating directory "obj\Debug\".
    Creating directory "bin\Debug\".
  Compile:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.10\bin\candle.exe -dDebug ...
    Windows Installer XML Toolset Compiler version 3.10.3.3007
    Copyright (c) .NET Foundation and contributors. All rights reserved.
  
    {myfile}.wxs
  Link:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.10\bin\Light.exe -out ...
    Windows Installer XML Toolset Linker version 3.10.3.3007
    Copyright (c) .NET Foundation and contributors. All rights reserved.
  
  ##[error]The task has timed out.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The build will run 10 minutes and then throw a timeout error. It usually takes ~1 minute to finish. There is no information in the log about where this may be timing out or why.</p>
  
  <p>I see that VS TS Build uses WiX version 3.10, but WiX version 3.10 works for me locally to build this same sln. I haveve tried all options for <code>Visual Studio Version</code> in the build step with same results.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas what I am missing and why this isn't working?</p>