WiX v3.0.4917.0 was released on Saturday, 17-January-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4917.0/. v3.0.4917.0 is the fourth post-beta build of WiX v3.0. There are 37 v3.0 bugs still open in the bug tracker. New features Rob and I added support for MSI 5.0. See the details here. Mike deprecated PerfCounter because PerformanceCounter is a superset. [...]
MSI 5.0 ships in the recently released Windows 7 beta. When the Windows 7 beta SDK was released, Rob and I had the detailed information we needed to add support for those features in WiX. A week and a day later, WiX v3.0.4917.0 includes that support. What’s new? In a long-awaited nod to modern UIs, [...]
The Windows 7 beta SDK showed up on MSDN late Friday and is now available from the Microsoft download center for those without an MSDN subscription. Included in the new SDK is a new version of Orca and details about the new features in MSI 5.0. At the moment, the documentation doesn’t appear to be [...]
No, this isn’t a post on the costs of proprietary software but an amplification/clarification to my previous post. On wix-users, there’s a thread on the pains of automating upgrades. If your product consists of a large number of files and the file set changes regularly – files being added and removed during the product lifetime [...]
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,’ it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master – that’s all.’ [...]