Tag Archives: WiX highlights

WiX v3.5 supports Visual Studio 2010 beta 2

So that the WiX Working Group can enjoy Hallowe’en on Saturday, WiX v3.5.1030.0 with support for Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 was released today. You can get the bits at http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.5.1030.0/. This isn’t a full beta release – Burn is still in active development and isn’t ready for prime-time use yet – but we want [...]

Highlights of WiX v3.5.0529.0

WiX v3.5.0529.0 was released on Friday, 29-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.5.0529.0/.
But please don’t, unless you’re champing at the bit to help us work on the Burn chainer or Votive. This week’s release is focused on getting the v3.5 tree building using the beta release of Visual Studio 2010 and other infrastructure pieces involved [...]

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5329.0

WiX v3.0.5329.0 was released on Friday, 29-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5329.0/.
WiX v3.0 is in release-candidate phase, approaching release: There are zero v3.0 bugs open. See Rob’s empty chart. Only critical bugs breaking core use cases would be considered for WiX v3.0 now.

Developer
ID
Description

Aaron
 
Updated error message that’s displayed when there’s a mismatch between a [...]

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5322.0

WiX v3.0.5322.0 was released on Friday, 22-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5322.0/.
WiX v3.0 is in release-candidate phase, approaching release: There are only 6 v3.0 bugs still open. See Rob’s bug breakdown.

Developer
ID
Description

Aaron
 
Removed the block from the WiX installer that prevented installation when the Visual Studio distribution of WiX was installed. Now that the Visual Studio [...]

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5315.0

WiX v3.0.5315.0 was released on Friday, 15-May-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5315.0/.
WiX v3.0 is in release-candidate phase, approaching release: There are only 7 v3.0 bugs still open. See Rob’s bug breakdown.

Developer
ID
Description

Me
 
Based on a wix-users report, I added debug output logging to the WixUIValidatePath custom action (normal MSI logging doesn’t work because it’s a custom [...]