Joy of Setup

WiX v3.0.5106.0 was released on Friday, 6-March-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5106.0/.

There are 26 v3.0 bugs still open.

New features

• Brian added stable-id generation to Heat. See his writeup of how the new features work.
• I added the InstallExecute and InstallExecuteAgain standard actions, for scheduling RemoveExistingProducts after either one and before InstallFinalize.

Bug fixes

• Aaron and I fixed the manual on the Web site.
• Rob fixed the MsiShortcutProperty column name (PropVariantValue instead of PropertyVariantValue as incorrectly documented in the MSI 5.0 beta SDK).
• Eric fixed 1656871 CodeDomReader: Class/@Context Attribute Won’t Roundtrip.
• Jason fixed 2037493 DTF – Request for FeatureParent.
• Jason fixed 2219238 Exception thrown when trying to access missing summary info.
• Brian fixed 2485646 Heat generates FileSource inconsistently.
• Brian fixed 2492679 Error HEAT0001 when harvesting a project file.
• Jason fixed 2502170 DTF DoAction throw exception.
• Heath fixed 2546770 Loosely validated transforms are limited by target products.
• Brian fixed 2550532 heat project content harvest generates duplicate id’s.
• Jason fixed 2621662 MessageResult enum doesn’t contain the correct values.
• Rob fixed 2644742 WIX COM Registration – wxs schema problem.
• Jason fixed 2647864 SfxCA fails to extract if package has subdirectories.
• Rob fixed 2649671 Setting REBOOT=Forced causes light to fail.
• Rob fixed 2652099 Bugs into PrintEula CA.
• Heath fixed 2654563 PYRO0001 with wixmst created from MSI packages.
• Jason fixed 2655322 ArithmeticException from Installer.GetFileHash.
• I fixed 2655530 ShortcutProperty causes ICE32 error.
• Aaron fixed 2657997 GAC issue.
• Jason fixed 2658284 internalUILevel Enum or SampleEmbeddedUI incorrect.