As part of the PDC 2008 festivities, the Visual Studio team has released a CTP of Visual Studio 2010. As predicted, the CTP includes a "productization" of WiX, including the core toolset, Votive, and many of the WiX extensions.
Many? Not all? Right; the CTP includes the following extensions:
WixIIsExtension
WixNetFxExtension
WixSqlExtension
WixUIExtension
WixUtilExtension
WixVSExtension
That means, at least in this CTP, the [...]
WiX v3.0.4624.0 was released on Saturday, 25-October-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4624.0/.
New features
Svet added the IncludedFile preprocessor event to detect when files are included via <?include?> processing instructions.
Mike added support for Visual C++ 2005 projects for dutil.lib and wcautil.lib (2166658: LNK1103 when linking against WiX SDK in VS2005).
Bug fixes
Chris added code to ensure that [...]
Via Scott Hanselman comes the announcement that we should "Embrace the new .NET Logo!"
So I think we need to make sure WiX runs on both .NET and .ÑET. Or is that ~.NET? And is that "approximately .NET" or "NOT .NET"?
Thanks to the State of Washington’s Vote by Mail program, I was able to vote today and therefore feel 100 percent guilt-free about (continuing to) fast-forward through political ads on my Media Center.
A $0.42 poll tax is well worth avoiding the road-rage-y SUV drivers at the junior high school that serves as my polling [...]
WiX v3.0.4617.0 was released on Friday, 17-October-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4617.0/.
Known issues
We tried a fix for 2163032: WiX Install Path but it didn’t take. Therefore, WiX still installs into a directory that will fail to build .wixproj projects created with earlier versions. A complete fix has been implemented for the next release.
New [...]