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Highlights of WiX v3.0.4429.0

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 [...]

Highlights of WiX v3.0.4422.0

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 [...]

Highlights of WiX v3.0.4415.0

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

1273447: Can’t put RegLocator inside DrLocator [...]

Highlights of WiX v3.0.4401.0

WiX v3.0.4401.0 was released on Friday, 01-August-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4401.0/.
New features

Neil Enns continues to add topics and fix bugs in the documentation.
Mike Carlson made the Id/Name attribute default values (in the File element, from the @Source attribute) when used from a fragment.

Bug fixes

2011737: Deleting an Element with XmlConfig always [...]

Highlights of WiX v3.0.4325.0

WiX v3.0.4325.0 was released on Friday, 25-July-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4325.0/.
New features

Mike Carlson changed the preprocessor to stop evaluating expressions in a false <?if?> block. That lets you check for the presence of a preprocessor variable, for example, and use it in the block "knowing" that it’s defined.

Bug fixes

Jason and Mike [...]