Highlights of WiX v3.0.3829.0

WiX v3.0.3829.0 was released on Friday, 29-Feb-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.3829.0/.

New features

  • Rob brought back the long-lost WixComPlusExtension and WixMsmqExtension extensions, both in the binaries .zip and the WiX installer package.
  • WiX extensions can now have reference paths specified as metadata in .wixproj projects.
  • You can now run individual ICEs during validation (in addition to the default of running all except those explicitly suppressed). Light has a -ice switch and an Ices property in the MSBuild targets.
  • XmlFile in WixUtilExtension now supports a SelectionLanguage attribute to choose between XPath and XSLPattern if MSXML 3.0 or later is installed on the target machine.
  • Heath added support for extensions to be able to support version-checking between authoring and extension version. So you can make sure your authoring is being built with a version of the extension that handles it correctly (or, say, has an important bug fix).

Bug fixes

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3 Responses to “Highlights of WiX v3.0.3829.0”

  1. March 3rd, 2008 at 13:56 #Erik Loman

    Great work on the ComPlus extension. Works like a charm.

  2. March 3rd, 2008 at 16:05 #Bob Arnson

    All Rob.

  3. March 11th, 2008 at 12:03 #Dave Scheffer

    Could have have example/reference applications showing best practice use of the extensions in v3 please.

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