As I mentioned previously, one of my favorite examples of a tight, clean Windows Installer package for a real product–VirtualBox–succumbed to a dreaded VBScript custom action when they released v1.6.0. Predictably, it caused errors (during uninstallation, because this custom action ran during uninstall only).
VirtualBox 1.6.2 dropped that custom action. The VirtualBox installers still have a [...]
As Rob mentioned, one of the things we’re looking at fixing in a WiX v2 service release is to downgrade the version of mergemod.dll to one that doesn’t have a particular bug. For more information on the bug, see Rob’s original blog post and bugs 1965131 and 1911165.)
Until that release, you can download the latest [...]
WiX v3.0.4207.0 was released on Saturday, 7-June-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4207.0/. Note that WiX v3.0.4206.0 was released on Friday but contains a bug that breaks MSBuild-based projects.
New features
All the command-line handling for tools like Candle.exe was refactored to simplify repetitive code and do better error-checking.
Project reference preprocessor variables are now populated by the [...]