Highlights of WiX v3.0.4102.0

WiX v3.0.4102.0 was released on Friday, 02-May-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4102.0/.

New features

The assembly version numbers of assemblies like wix.dll are now “locked” at 3.0.0.0. Doing so lets anybody build a WiX extension for WiX v3 without having to rebuild it every time a new build of WiX is released. The file versions will continue to be updated with the build number in the third field.
Added -fdvital switch to Candle and FilesVitalByDefault property to wix.targets to specify that all files should get their msidbFileAttributesVital bit set by default.
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Lots of minor features, tweaks, and bug fixes in Votive.
The Votive features in Wix3.msi can now be uninstalled if you first uninstall the corresponding version of Visual Studio. Previously, they’d be left behind even during a major upgrade or complete uninstall. This was caused by an overly aggressive feature condition.
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Posted in WiX at May 3rd, 2008. Trackback URI: trackback
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May 3rd, 2008 at 21:03 #Joy of Setup » RFC: Vitality

[...] minor new feature I added to WiX in the latest weekly release is the ability to indicate that all files should have the msidbFileAttributesVital bit set by [...]
May 4th, 2008 at 02:58 #Neil Sleightholm

A minor point but I think the -fdvital switch was added to Candle not Light.
May 4th, 2008 at 12:26 #Bob Arnson

Neil,

Yep, updated. I kept making that mistake and I’m the one that implemented it.