There’ve been a couple of reports that WiX v3.0.4123 doesn’t include mergemod.dll. That’s unfortunate because it’s a really annoying bug and worse, I was the last one to touch mergemod.dll (to fix 1965131) so it was probably my fault. I couldn’t reproduce the problem, however; mergemod.dll was present in Wix3.msi, Wix3_x64.msi, and wix3-binaries.zip. I was [...]
The WiX installer had a bug that I noticed during our transition from Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2008. If you had the Votive feature installed for VS2005 and VS2008, then uninstalled VS2005, the Votive feature was "orphaned" and couldn’t be uninstalled. The cause is that the Votive features are enabled only when the [...]
VirtualBox, the desktop virtualization product acquired by Sun Microsystems in February, shipped version 1.6.0 on Friday. I previously mentioned VirtualBox in my blog post on setup testing with virtual machines. I lauded their clean setup and low custom-action count. Unfortunately, the latest version hasn’t kept up that standard of Setup Goodness™. The x64 package isn’t [...]
Raymond Chen, famous Windows shell ninja, suggests today in his blog that the “action” button in a setup wizard, should be labeled Next instead of Finish. While I wholeheartedly agree that Finish is a bad label for the button that kicks off the actual installation process, Next has its own problems. In WixUI, each installation [...]
Google announced the release of Google Earth 4.3 today. Given the recent release of their WiX-based setup for the Google App Engine SDK, I had to give it a shot. (It helps that my day job also deals with 3-D terrain imagery.) When you click the link to “Download Google Earth 4.3” (and accept the [...]