WixFirewallExtension is a new WiX extension that lets you configure the Windows Firewall from your program’s installer. Windows has had a built-in firewall since Windows XP was released in 2001, though it was XP’s Service Pack 2 that introduced a firewall of sufficient power for most people to use it. (It helps that in SP2, [...]
The Game Explorer is a new feature in Windows Vista to collect and richly present installed games. Game Explorer is a shell folder that includes detailed information about each game, including box art, content ratings (and parental-control restrictions based on them), and performance requirements (using the Vista performance rating system).
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A common request on wix-users is how to create shortcuts to a Web site. MSI’s Shortcut table and CreateShortcuts action don’t support targets that point to URLs like http://www.joyofsetup.com/. A shortcut’s target can point only to a feature (for advertised shortcuts) or a file or directory (for unadvertised shortcuts).
You can fake a shortcut to a [...]
There’s been an increase lately in the number of questions on the wix-users mailing list and elsewhere about extending the WixUI dialog library.
WixUI extensibility past
In WiX v2, WixUI is a simple .wixlib of UI authoring fragments. Navigation between pages of the wizard is handled by properties that contain the previous and next dialog names [...]