Joy of Setup

WiX v3.0.3711.0 was released on Friday, 11-Jan-08.

New features

• The WiX MSBuild tasks run repeated commands faster by recycling AppDomains rather than always creating new processes.
• MSBuild tasks are now available for Heat and its extensions.
• The ComponentGroup element can now be a child of Product.
• Binder variables can be used wherever localizable integers are allowed so you can now use !(bind…) in addition to !(loc…).
• Binder variables now include FileVersion and FileLanguage from versioninfo resources, if present. Syntax is:
  !(bind.FileVersion.fileId)
  !(bind.FileLanguage.fileId)
• Multiple .wxl files of the same culture can now be added to a .wixlib. (Multiple .wxl files of different cultures have always been supported.)
• 1867685: An enhancement to the change I discussed in Simplifying the WiX v3 language.
• Localization support for Votive and its templates.

Bug fixes

• The MSBuild wix.targets file is now marked as trusted in the registry to avoid a hackaround to avoid security prompts.
• 1853251
• 1848762
• 1853854: The actual bug was missing localization strings.