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Highlights of WiX v3.5.0529.0

WiX v3.5.0529.0 was released on Friday, 29-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.5.0529.0/.

But please don’t, unless you’re champing at the bit to help us work on the Burn chainer or Votive. This week’s release is focused on getting the v3.5 tree building using the beta release of Visual Studio 2010 and other infrastructure pieces involved in building and publishing a new branch of the WiX toolset. As such, it’s a developer’s release and isn’t ready for general use.

That said, as promised, here’s what you can look forward to in the very near future:

  • Burn, the new WiX multi-package chainer platform.
  • Votive integratation for Visual Studio 2010.
  • Extension support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0.
Posted 30 May 2009 † Bob Arnson § WiX ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: ,

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5329.0

WiX v3.0.5329.0 was released on Friday, 29-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5329.0/.

WiX v3.0 is in release-candidate phase, approaching release: There are zero v3.0 bugs open. See Rob’s empty chart. Only critical bugs breaking core use cases would be considered for WiX v3.0 now.

Developer ID Description
Aaron   Updated error message that’s displayed when there’s a mismatch between a database’s codepage and characters used in the database. Oh, if only there were a way of representing all those characters…Alas, until then, MSI databases require codepages and that means that you have to use the right subset of characters for the codepage you’re using.
Aaron   Added a topic on integrating WiX into a Team Foundation Build lab project.
"Various artists"   Fixed typos in error messages, changed the logging output of a couple of MSBuild tasks to not look like error messages, added schema support for links inside element descriptions.
Aaron 2795343 GenerateBootstrapper ApplicationFile must be relative path

So I guess WiX West team in Redmond has been relaxing as WiX v3.0 winds down…oh wait, I guess we have been cooking up a little something…

Posted 30 May 2009 † Bob Arnson § WiX ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5322.0

WiX v3.0.5322.0 was released on Friday, 22-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5322.0/.

WiX v3.0 is in release-candidate phase, approaching release: There are only 6 v3.0 bugs still open. See Rob’s bug breakdown.

Developer ID Description
Aaron   Removed the block from the WiX installer that prevented installation when the Visual Studio distribution of WiX was installed. Now that the Visual Studio distribution of WiX is no more, is bereft of life, rests in peace, and is otherwise an ex-distribution, the block is no longer needed.
Me   Fixed "missing" pages in the online WiX v3.0 manual. They weren’t missing, just using inconsistent case, which matters on SourceForge’s servers.
Eric 2777114 Problem with wixproj msbuild macro values
Me 2786736 Wix uses wrong msbuild version for .vcproj references
Eric 2792176 ConvertToAbsolutePath task not found VS2005
Me 2792525 Missing punctuation in WixUI_en-us.wxs
Posted 23 May 2009 † Bob Arnson § WiX ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5315.0

WiX v3.0.5315.0 was released on Friday, 15-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5315.0/.

WiX v3.0 is in release-candidate phase, approaching release: There are only 7 v3.0 bugs still open. See Rob’s bug breakdown.

Developer ID Description
Me   Based on a wix-users report, I added debug output logging to the WixUIValidatePath custom action (normal MSI logging doesn’t work because it’s a custom action triggered from a DoAction control event). I also added the WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH property to suppress WixUIValidatePath calls.
Aaron   Added documentation annotations for deprecated elements in wix.xsd so information will appear in IntelliSense and not just the .chm.
Brian   Added the capability for heat to take an extension via the command line similar to how the other tools do using -ext Extension.
Me   Fixed user-reported typo in fr-FR localization.
Neil 2609695 Add support for harvesting performance counters
Eric 2790472 "error CNDL0288" using localized merge modules
Mike 2792009 XmlFile crashes in XPath mode when file doesn’t exist
Posted 15 May 2009 † Bob Arnson § WiX ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5308.0

WiX v3.0.5308.0 was released on Saturday, 9-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5308.0/.

WiX v3.0 is in release-candidate phase, approaching release: There are only 6 v3.0 bugs still open. See Rob’s bug breakdown.

Developer ID Description
Aaron   Added detailed documentation about customizing the dialog sets in WixUI.
Aaron   Removed build-specific version information from the WiX installer, now that we’re so close to release.
Mike   Fix WixSqlExtension to properly handle strings that contain identifiers that are already escaped.
Jason 2380391 Project reference to .wixlib forces light on every build
Mike 2782585 PermissionEx Error -ExecSecureObjects didnt close MSIHANDLE
Brian 2783049 Heat output produced does not Link, but does compile.
Eric 2785180 VSExtension does not work well when used in a Merge Module
Aaron 2786681 some missing intellisense tags
Me 2786736 Wix uses wrong msbuild version in vs2008: Note that this requires your .wixproj to be declared
<Project ToolsVersion="3.5" …>
so MSBuild builds the .wixproj using v3.5 tools.
Eric 2787116 WixExtensionSearchPaths should be outside <Target>
Brian 2788210 heat built wxs will not compile
Posted 09 May 2009 † Bob Arnson § WiX ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,