WixFirewallExtension is a new WiX extension that lets you configure the Windows Firewall from your program’s installer. Windows has had a built-in firewall since Windows XP was released in 2001, though it was XP’s Service Pack 2 that introduced a firewall of sufficient power for most people to use it. (It helps that in SP2, [...]
The Game Explorer is a new feature in Windows Vista to collect and richly present installed games. Game Explorer is a shell folder that includes detailed information about each game, including box art, content ratings (and parental-control restrictions based on them), and performance requirements (using the Vista performance rating system). Most of the details shown [...]
A common request on wix-users is how to create shortcuts to a Web site. MSI’s Shortcut table and CreateShortcuts action don’t support targets that point to URLs like http://www.joyofsetup.com/. A shortcut’s target can point only to a feature (for advertised shortcuts) or a file or directory (for unadvertised shortcuts). You can fake a shortcut to [...]
We shipped Service Pack 2 for Flight Simulator X on Friday. (Get the downloads from fsinsider.com; see Phil Taylor’s blog entries for more details.) Service Pack 2 contains the same set of fixes as in Acceleration, without Acceleration‘s new aircraft or missions. We’re seeing a common problem come up: A message from the installer: “Microsoft [...]
My second project at ACES Studio, the Flight Simulator X: Acceleration expansion pack, has gone gold. Well, 12.5 percent of it has: We sent the English release to manufacturing but we have seven more languages we’re shipping over the next couple of weeks. So while the extra-long days are a bit more normal now, the [...]