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 [...]
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 [...]
When WiX v3.0 was in early, active development, the guidance we gave folks who wanted to start using its features was: “Sure, start using WiX v3.0! But pick up new builds at least once a month or so.” There were three Reasons for Taking Frequent WiX Drops (RTFWD, for short): The v3.0 schema was changing [...]
As Rob mentioned, one of the things we’re looking at fixing in a WiX v2 service release is to downgrade the version of mergemod.dll to one that doesn’t have a particular bug. For more information on the bug, see Rob’s original blog post and bugs 1965131 and 1911165.) Until that release, you can download the [...]