Now that Rob moved the WiX source repository and releases to Codeplex, how you interact with the WiX source code changes. Before the move to Codeplex, we published a .zip file that contains most—but not all—of the files needed to rebuild WiX. (Some large binary files were omitted because of space limitations at SourceForge.) For [...]
So far the results of The Experiment have been minimal—I’ve received one public report and one private report—but 100 percent successful. So we need more data but so far it’s looking good. One issue has come up, however: Build failures with customized dialog sets. Fragments that define dialog sets need to include all the UI [...]
Last month, I posted a plea for help to try to figure out why sometimes (or rarely) (or frequently), Windows Installer fails to set an internal property that causes a never-ending “please wait” dialog. I got lots of feedback—thanks!—but unfortunately, nothing that helped me pinpoint a cause or a solution. So it’s time to make [...]
Don’t complicate your setups by doing more than you have to. Here are a few things I’ve run into lately of people doing more than they have to and opening themselves up to potential bugs or increased risk of getting something wrong. Some attributes are optional, really. Rob and I have blogged before about the [...]
There’s a bug that the WixUI “Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirements” dialog is intermittently shown forever, never finishing the costing process to continue installation. I’ve seen that bug before have never been able to reproduce it reliably. The disk costing process is something Windows Installer does in the background [...]