Highlights of WiX v3.0.4429.0

WiX v3.0.4429.0 was released on Friday, 29-August-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4429.0/.

Aaron added properties to WixVSExtension to detect Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.
Aaron also added a new custom action, WixExitEarlyWithSuccess, which makes it easy to exit without error in a major upgrade when a later version is already installed.
I updated make.bat and wix.build to pass desired verbosity from the NAnt side of the build to the MSBuild side.
Candy Chiang, of the team integrating WiX into Visual Studio, contributed many updates to the WiX.chm documentation.

1591591: scawebsvcext.cpp does not work in IIS 5
1741663: WebAppPool Fails on IIS < 6.0
1848752: NativeImage CA never runs
2010047: Cannot add wixlib to project
2041989: Candle exception when inculding an invalid wxi file
2077095: Firewall Extension fails
Eric St. John fixed a bug in the CloseApplication custom action to correctly send close messages to all the top-level windows of the specified process, which should fix the problem noted on wix-users where CloseApplication didn’t work with VB6 apps.

Posted in WiX at August 30th, 2008. Trackback URI: trackback
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September 2nd, 2008 at 05:19 #Erik

The Firewall Extension still fails if the Windows Firewall service is disabled .
September 2nd, 2008 at 19:11 #Bob Arnson

Erik,

In my testing, when the firewall service is disabled, the user gets a prompt for abort/retry/ignore. Are you seeing anything different?
September 3rd, 2008 at 06:46 #Erik

Hi Rob,

I have created a movie of the setup. As you can see, no prompt.

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September 3rd, 2008 at 06:50 #Erik

Hi Rob,

I do not get a prompt. I have created a movie to illustrate. The version of WixFirewallExtension.dll is 3.0.4429.0.

<fire:FirewallException Id="CaretakerProxyFirewallEntry" Name="Caretaker Proxy" Scope="localSubnet" File="CaretakerProxyFile"/>
September 3rd, 2008 at 06:50 #Erik

Hi Rob,

I do not get a prompt. I have created a movie to illustrate (http://www.surfright.nl/firewallextension.avi). The version of WixFirewallExtension.dll is 3.0.4429.0.
September 3rd, 2008 at 20:12 #Bob Arnson

Erik,

I can see only the first frame of that video. Can you open a bug and attach a verbose log?
September 3rd, 2008 at 23:42 #Erik

I have created a bug (2092594) and assigned it to you. I hope you can squeeze a fix into the release this Friday

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