I’ve been using Mercurial, a distributed version-control system, for a while now at home. Even without using a DVCS’s distributed nature, they make a great choice for a personal version control system: They all share the common trait that they keep all version history on the local system; most centralized VCSes keep only the latest [...]
The Cambridge-based WiX East Virtual Team have is pleased to announce its first major contribution to WiX: The Lux unit-testing framework. Lux will be available in the next weekly release of WiX v3.5.
Unit-testing custom actions with Lux
Custom actions are a frequent cause of installation failures so it’s important to test them thoroughly. Custom actions themselves [...]
I’m a fan of major upgrades, which I’ve written about before. For 10 lines of XML, you get free and easy upgrades without having to deal with the costs of patching and minor upgrades:
<!– Major upgrade –> <Upgrade Id="$(var.UpgradeCode)"> <UpgradeVersion Minimum="$(var.ProductVersion)" OnlyDetect="yes" Property="NEWERVERSIONDETECTED" /> [...]
In the latest in the ongoing series of simplifying the WiX language, I recently added two new defaults to the WiX compiler:
The Component/@Guid attribute value defaults to “*” so that if you don’t specify it, WiX generates a stable component GUID at link time. Generated component GUIDs are available as long as your component:
Does not [...]
So that the WiX Working Group can enjoy Hallowe’en on Saturday, WiX v3.5.1030.0 with support for Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 was released today. You can get the bits at http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.5.1030.0/. This isn’t a full beta release – Burn is still in active development and isn’t ready for prime-time use yet – but we want [...]