After a brief hiatus, WiX v3.0.4603.0 was released on Friday, 10-October-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4603.0/.

New features

  • Eric implemented his own feature request to support parameter files for event manifests (1903673).
  • I implemented x64 and ia64 support for WixDifxAppExtension (1962701).
    Note that this change required moving the binary .wixlibs out of the extension and into companion files. The .wixlibs (difxapp_ia64.wixlib, difxapp_x64.wixlib, difxapp_x86.wixlib) must be in the same directory as WixDifxAppExtension.dll.
  • Rob added support for calling 64-bit processes in 64-bit directories from CAQuietExec (1998496).

Bug fixes

Posted in WiX at October 11th, 2008. 2 Comments.

WiX v3.0.4513.0 was released on lucky Saturday, 13-September-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4513.0/.

New features

  • Aaron added properties to WixNetFxExtension to detect .NET Framework Client Profile.

Bug fixes

Posted in WiX at September 13th, 2008. No Comments.

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 easy to exit without error in a major upgrade when a later version is already installed.
  • I updated make.bat and wix.build to pass desired verbosity from the NAnt side of the build to the MSBuild side.
  • Candy Chiang, of the team integrating WiX into Visual Studio, contributed many updates to the WiX.chm documentation.
Bug fixes
Posted in WiX at August 30th, 2008. 7 Comments.

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 builds on x64 OSes work without registry hacks.
  • Eric St. John added the ElevatedCloseMessage attribute to the WixUtilExtension CloseApplication element (and corresponding custom action implementation), to send a close message to the target process’s windows while running deferred.
Bug fixes

[Updated with actual features -v- bug fixes.]

Posted in WiX at August 23rd, 2008. No Comments.

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 added support for standard command-line switches to the WiX v3 bootstrapper.

Bug fixes

Posted in WiX at August 16th, 2008. 8 Comments.