Joy of Setup

WiX v3.0.4624.0 was released on Saturday, 25-October-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4624.0/.

New features

• Svet added the IncludedFile preprocessor event to detect when files are included via <?include?> processing instructions.
• Mike added support for Visual C++ 2005 projects for dutil.lib and wcautil.lib (2166658: LNK1103 when linking against WiX SDK in VS2005).

Bug fixes

• Chris added code to ensure that if a firewall exception failure is set to be ignored, the error dialog won’t be shown since it would be ignored anyway.
• Heath fixed 1790319: Pyro uses English text for suminfo comments.
• Heath fixed 1879436: Temp files should be different for transforms.
• I fixed 2153641: Use IUniformResourceLocatorW for internet shortcuts by adding support for both .url and .lnk shortcuts.
• Rob fixed 2184946: IISExtension: Error 26352 installing certificate.
• Eric fixed 2187793: SetupBld.exe does not correctly set product name.
• Eric fixed 2187808: Util:EventManifest makes manifests unpatchable.
• Rob fixed 2190355: Only can assign ComponentGroup to one feature.

WiX v3.0.4617.0 was released on Friday, 17-October-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4617.0/.

Known issues

• We tried a fix for 2163032: WiX Install Path but it didn’t take. Therefore, WiX still installs into a directory that will fail to build .wixproj projects created with earlier versions. A complete fix has been implemented for the next release.

New features

• Mike added support to the NativeImage custom actions in WixNetFxExtension to support later versions of the underlying Common Language Runtime of the .NET Framework.
• Mike also added additional code in the PermissionEx/SecureObjects custom actions to properly roll back registry permissions during failed major upgrades.
• Heath added support for explicit patch states to DTF’s PatchInstallation class.
• Jason’s bucking for ownership of Heat with several new features:
• Making Heat’s Visual Studio project harvester work with MSBuild 3.5 projects.
• Adding HarvestProjects as a target in wix.target to run Heat against the HeatProject item group.
• Adding the -t switch to heat.exe and Transforms property to the HeatFile, HeatDirectory, and HeatProject tasks to apply XSL transformations to Heat output.
• Aaron added the VS90_SP1 property in WixVSExtension to detect Visual Studio 2008 SP1 by checking a particular file’s version. That overcomes a bug in VS setup that in a mildly twisted set of circumstances causes the registry-based detection of the VS90_SP_LEVEL property to report a lower SP level than the main VS product.

Bug fixes

• Jason fixed some DTF bugs in the SourceList.MediaList and Database.IsReadOnly methods and the MakeSfxCA tool.
• Mike fixed a bunch of typos in the documentation, error messages, and command-line messages.
• Eric fixed 1515041: XmlFile attempts and fails to edit locked file on uninstall.
• Rob fixed 1631870: wixca.dll, scaexec.dll fail to run on WinNT4.
• Eric fixed a bug introduced implementing 1903673: EventManifest/@parameterFileName attribute.
• Heath fixed 1955989: Author min version to process transforms and patches.
• Heath fixed 1961300: PatchTransform.Validate should check for removed components.
• Mike fixed 2076641: Error building with Dutch localisation.
• Mike fixed 2113607: Errors in german localization.
• I fixed 2124834: Missing space before [ProductName] in spanish es-ES.
• I fixed 2124836: Install button not wide enough for japanese.

After a brief hiatus, WiX v3.0.4603.0 was released on Friday, 10-October-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4603.0/.

New features

• Eric implemented his own feature request to support parameter files for event manifests (1903673).
• I implemented x64 and ia64 support for WixDifxAppExtension (1962701).
  Note that this change required moving the binary .wixlibs out of the extension and into companion files. The .wixlibs (difxapp_ia64.wixlib, difxapp_x64.wixlib, difxapp_x86.wixlib) must be in the same directory as WixDifxAppExtension.dll.
• Rob added support for calling 64-bit processes in 64-bit directories from CAQuietExec (1998496).

Bug fixes

• Mike wins the prize for oldest bug fixed: 1215626: WebApplication Uninstall does not remove COM+ Application.
• Rob fixed 1930640: PFXImportCertStore() fails to delete private key containers and again with 2139051: certificate install fails.
• Eric fixed 1954320: ConfigureEventManifestUnregister is not run on REINSTALL.
• Mike fixed 2034671: Directory ID must not be equal to MSI property.
• I fixed 2038040: Loading Extensions.
• Mike fixed 2041995: Lit exception with multiple input files and no -out file.
• Dan fixed 2041997: Exception:NonNumeric value in numeric column of custom table.
• Eric fixed 2048669: MSBuild returning incorrect output.
• Dan fixed 2072792: No warning when Patch fields have invalid lengths.
• Rob fixed 2077669: ICE03 for HttpHeader with ‘ - ‘ characters.
• Heath fixed 2078569: DirectorySearch Depth.
• I fixed 2078764: CAQuietExec doc doesn’t show type 51 CA.
• Heath fixed 2084824: directory search regression starting with 3.0.4415.
• Eric fixed 2093042: Problems with verbose logging from WcaUtil.
• Rob fixed 2099971: $(sys.SOURCEFILEPATH) points to wrong file.
• Rob fixed 2106531: <ServiceConfig> just can’t get it to work.
• Dan fixed 2122961: Need better error message: Registry/KeyPath/Action.
• Jason fixed 2124218: Candle fails in MSBuild if WiX not installed.
• Jason fixed a bug in MakeSfxCA to support multiple copies of the same dependent files.
• Jason fixed a bug in Heat when harvesting subdirectories from MSBuild project output.

WiX v3.0.4513.0 was released on lucky Saturday, 13-September-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4513.0/.

New features

• Aaron added properties to WixNetFxExtension to detect .NET Framework Client Profile.

Bug fixes

• Mike Carlson fixed a bug in Light that was triggered when you used a filename that couldn’t be represented in the database’s chosen code page.
• John Nannenga fixed a bug in DTF’s FeatureAttributes.
• 1372126: SqlDatabase with multiple files creates a single file set
• 1565886: Setting extended ACL permissions conditionally doesn’t work
• 1588180: errors and warnings when trying to ‘light’ HxS installer
• 1892358: XmlConfig can’t seem to find/modify an element by Id
• 1894817: Uninstall fails if IIS ext can’t locate website
• 1947061: DeleteMachineCertificate action fails
• 2002687: Shortcut does not correspond to parent
• 2017360: ContinueOnError should be allowed for non-component SqlDatab
• 2041989: Candle exception when inculding an invalid wxi file
• 2043410: GAC assembly installation fails if file name does not match
• 2046956: Pyro can’t target multiple baselines
• 2051748: DropOnReinstall="yes"/CreateOnReinstall="yes" doesn’t
• 2078554: Illegal identifier File/@Id when only specifying File/@Name
• 2088247: Null Reference Exception
• 2094263: IIS Extension: WebProperties are not being set
• 2104030: Binder variable assemblyFullName generates invalid type name

WiX v3.0.4429.0 was released on Friday, 29-August-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4429.0/.

New features

• Aaron added properties to WixVSExtension to detect Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.
• Aaron also added a new custom action, WixExitEarlyWithSuccess, which makes it easy to exit without error in a major upgrade when a later version is already installed.
• I updated make.bat and wix.build to pass desired verbosity from the NAnt side of the build to the MSBuild side.
• Candy Chiang, of the team integrating WiX into Visual Studio, contributed many updates to the WiX.chm documentation.

Bug fixes

• 1591591: scawebsvcext.cpp does not work in IIS 5
• 1741663: WebAppPool Fails on IIS < 6.0
• 1848752: NativeImage CA never runs
• 2010047: Cannot add wixlib to project
• 2041989: Candle exception when inculding an invalid wxi file
• 2077095: Firewall Extension fails
• Eric St. John fixed a bug in the CloseApplication custom action to correctly send close messages to all the top-level windows of the specified process, which should fix the problem noted on wix-users where CloseApplication didn’t work with VB6 apps.