MSI 5.0 ships in the recently released Windows 7 beta. When the Windows 7 beta SDK was released, Rob and I had the detailed information we needed to add support for those features in WiX. A week and a day later, WiX v3.0.4917.0 includes that support. What’s new? In a long-awaited nod to modern UIs, [...]
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 job. Blah, blah. Whatever. What’s [...]
MSI has some funky syntax to support checking the action state (what MSI is planning to do during the current install transaction) and install state (what MSI already did, in a previous install transaction) of both features and components. See Conditional Statement Syntax for the details and Examples of Conditional Statement Syntax for some examples. [...]
A question that’s come up on the wix-users mailing list several times lately has been about how to use feature conditions with properties set in the UI. It doesn’t work as most people expect so I thought I’d dig a little deeper than I would in a bunch of replies on the mailing list. The [...]