http://www.joyofsetup.com Bob Arnson's blog about setup and servicing Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:49:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google today released (after a bit of a comic-book pre-release, presumably due to the Labor Day holiday in the US) Google Chrome, its long-rumored open-source browser. Plenty of people will talk (endlessly) about the implications of another browser and how well Google Chrome and Chromium (the open source project) do the ... http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-setup/ 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 ... http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/08/30/highlights-of-wix-v3044290/ Rick Brewster of the Paint.NET team blogged about the pain of getting Paint.NET installed on a system without the .NET Framework. It's fair to say that for a system running Windows XP without optional updates, installing the latest and greatest Framework is an annoying exercise. Part of the problem (blame) ... http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/08/25/everybody-could-use-a-good-burn/ WiX v3.0.4422.0 was released on Friday, 22-August-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4422.0/. New features Aaron added documentation on properties used in the MSBuild tasks and targets. Dan Manson added a strong-name skip-verification entry so ... http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/08/23/highlights-of-wix-v3044220/ WiX v3.0.4415.0--code-named Heat-Wave-in-Seattle?!--was released on Friday, 15-August-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4415.0/. New features Jason added to DTF support for MSI 4.5's embedded UI, along with a sample that uses WPF for the UI. Eric St. John ... http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/08/16/highlights-of-wix-v3044150/ WiX v3.0.4401.0 was released on Friday, 01-August-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4401.0/. New features Neil Enns continues to add topics and fix bugs in the documentation. Mike Carlson made the Id/Name attribute default values (in the File ... http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/08/03/highlights-of-wix-v3044010/ WiX v3.0.4325.0 was released on Friday, 25-July-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4325.0/. New features Mike Carlson changed the preprocessor to stop evaluating expressions in a false <?if?> block. That lets you check for the presence of a preprocessor variable, for example, and use ... http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/26/highlights-of-wix-v3043250/ WiX v3.0.4318.0 was released on Friday, 18-July-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4318.0/. New features Neil Enns, still late of the MSBuild team and still working on secret stuff, added two new properties to the OsInfo custom actions that detect the presence ... http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/21/highlights-of-wix-v3043180/ Loc variables -- using !(loc.id) syntax to refer to strings defined in a .wxl file -- let you use a single set of source files to build multiple localized installers. Common uses include obvious localizable strings like the product name and error messages. Slightly less common, but just as important ... http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/17/beware-localization-variables/ WcaUtil is a static library of convenience functions for writing custom actions in native C++. One of the more useful functions is WcaLog, which writes messages into the Windows Installer log. The first argument to WcaLog is the level of the message: LOGMSG_TRACEONLY: Written to the ... http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/07/15/verbose-logging-from-wcautil/