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Created Release: WiX v3.6 RC0 (Apr 03, 2012)

robmen — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:39:45 GMT

WiX v3.6 RC0 (3.6.2803.0) provides support for VS11 and a more stable Burn engine.

For more information see Rob's blog post about the release: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2012/4/3/WiX-v3.6-Release-Candidate-Zero-available

Released: WiX v3.6 RC0 (Apr 03, 2012)

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:39:45 GMT

Updated Release: WiX v3.6 Beta (Oct 21, 2011)

bobarnso — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:50:10 GMT

First beta release of WiX v3.6 (3.6.2221.0). The primary focus is on Burn but there are also many small bug fixes to the core toolset.

For more information see: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2011/10/24/WiX-v3.6-Beta-released

Released: WiX v3.6 Beta (Oct 21, 2011)

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:50:10 GMT

Updated Release: WiX v3.6 Beta (Oct 21, 2011)

bobarnso — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:34:34 GMT

First beta release of WiX v3.6. The primary focus is on Burn but there are also many small bug fixes to the core toolset.

For more information see: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2011/10/24/WiX-v3.6-Beta-released

Released: WiX v3.6 Beta (Oct 21, 2011)

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:34:34 GMT

Updated Release: WiX v3.6 Beta (Oct 21, 2011)

robmen — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:02:51 GMT

Released: WiX v3.6 Beta (Oct 21, 2011)

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:02:51 GMT

Updated Release: WiX Toolset v3.5 (Jan 19, 2011)

robmen — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:35:05 GMT

WiX Toolset v3.5 release builds on WiX v3.0 by adding support for Visual Studio 2010 and IIS7. There are many bug fixes and a few language improvements.

Visual Studio 2010 support
Native IIS7 support
Some WiX language improvements
Many, many bug fixes

For more information see: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2011/1/31/WiX-v3.5-released

Released: WiX Toolset v3.5 (sty 19, 2011)

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:35:05 GMT

WiX Toolset v3.5 release builds on WiX v3.0 by adding support for Visual Studio 2010 and IIS7. There are many bug fixes and a few language improvements.

Visual Studio 2010 support
Native IIS7 support
Some WiX language improvements
Many, many bug fixes

For more information see: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2011/1/31/WiX-v3.5-released

Updated Release: WiX Toolset v3.5 (Jan 19, 2011)

robmen — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:33:55 GMT

WiX Toolset v3.5 release builds on WiX v3.0 by adding support for Visual Studio 2010 and IIS7. There are many bug fixes and a few language improvements.

Visual Studio 2010 support
Native IIS7 support
Some WiX language improvements
Many, many bug fixes

For more information see: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts

Released: WiX Toolset v3.5 (Jan 19, 2011)

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:33:55 GMT

WiX Toolset v3.5 release builds on WiX v3.0 by adding support for Visual Studio 2010 and IIS7. There are many bug fixes and a few language improvements.

Visual Studio 2010 support
Native IIS7 support
Some WiX language improvements
Many, many bug fixes

For more information see: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts

Updated Release: WiX Toolset v2.0 (Oct 05, 2007)

robmen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:23:29 GMT

DerekC: Fix a bug in Common.GetFiles, it throws an uncaught IOException for some
file paths.

DerekC: Fix SF1323528: RegistrySearchRef/@Id needs to be required.

DerekC: Remove Microsoft.Cabinet.dll from the wix makefile.

DerekC: Fix SF1305918: Light Crashes when schema extension missing.

DerekC: Modularize the Registry Key column.

DerekC: Add support for suppression of individual actions in merge modules and
detect actions scheduled before/after termination actions (actions
with negative sequence numbers).

DerekC: Fix 1324248: Candle doesn't require ExeCommand attrib.

DerekC: Check for required/illegal tables for each output type. This fixes
SF1333004: Light failed while building msm, containing another msm and
SF1314157: Check for illegal/required tables in linker.

DerekC: Add support for PatchCreation/@Codepage.

DerekC: Deprecate the src attribute.

DerekC: Fix several regressions related to the EnsureTable functionality.

DerekC: Add a new generate guids (gg) option to tallow.

DerekC: Fix several bugs with script custom actions:
SF1340394: Script function not optional for script custom action.
SF1344829: Type 53/54 custom actions not supported.

DerekC: Require the Feature/@Level attribute to be specified in the compiler to
fix SF1342025: The Feature/@Level attribute is not correctly parsed.

DerekC: Fix a simple issue with a serverca error message.

JoeA: Add support for CustomActionRef.

DerekC: Do not set the msidbFileAttributesPatchAdded attribute for PatchGroup
since PatchWiz does this automatically. This fixes:
1346102: PatchGroup adds unexpected attribute.

RobMen: MSI SDK says ComPlus table has only one primary key, fix WiX tables.xml
to agree.

SBonev: Fix regression where identifiers that are too long cause an error
instead of a warning.

BobArnso: Update WixUI to use localization strings -- you must now link with
an appropriate .wxl file (WixUI_en-us.wxl included) -- add a tutorial
on using.
WixUI and fix SF:1280559.

JRock: Moved the build system over to use NAnt.

RobMen: Clean-up names of all WiX toolset executables.
Add .config files for all WiX toolset executables to handle CLR 2.0.
Add .manifest files for all WiX toolset executables to handle protected-
admin on Windows Vista.

RobMen: Add support for MSI 4.0.

RobMen: Fix lang neutral .rc files to avoid #define collisions with standard
Platform SDK headers.

DerekC: Fix a bug with displaying notidy information in light when a previous
error has occurred and fix a bug in setting different compression
levels on multiple cabinets in the binder.

ScotK: Fixing rollback support in compiler for SqlScript and SqlString.
Adding support for ExecuteOnReinstall in addition to ExecuteOnReInstall
for forward compatibility with WiX v3 fixes.

BobArnso: Add back the ProgressText (ActionText) and Error loc strings;
enabled their use by adding UIRef/@Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText"
to your source.

BobArnso: - Use whole sentences for localization, instead of building up
sentences by using properties to specify different verbs and word
forms, as many languages don't easily follow English word order.
- Add ActionText/Template loc strings

JRock: Making the wix20 public branch build correctly using NAnt and only
the publicly available SDKs (not the dtools versions).

RobMen: Generate caerr.wxi

BobArnso: - Make Sconce and Votive optional, so the VSIP SDK isn't required to
build the core toolset.
- Find VC by the VS80COMNTOOLS environment variable rather than
the registry (which VC Express doesn't have)

BobArnso: Add build requirements to WiX.chm, fixing sfbug:1318424.

RobMen: Update DocCompiler to correctly handle lists.

RobMen: Fix SqlScript/SqlString handling of bit masks.

Released: WiX Toolset v2.0 (Oct 05, 2007)

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:23:29 GMT

Updated Release: WiX Toolset v3.0 (Jun 19, 2009)

robmen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:23:10 GMT

Many other changes

AaronSte: Adding more detailed WixUI customization information to the
documentation.

AaronSte: Updating product branding in setup UI, the start menu and the VS
Help | About dialog.

MiCarls: SFBUG:2782585 - Fix heap corruption in IIS custom action

AaronSte: SFBUG:2786681 - Adding documentation annotations for some elements
in wix.xsd that were missing them.

MiCarls: Properly handle SQL database names that have already been escaped

BriaRo: SFBUG:2783049 - Removed duplicate registry keys from the Component if
they had been harvested.

EricStJ: SFBUG: 2787116 - Move WixExtensionSearchPaths outside of the target

BobArnso: Fix SFBug:2786736 - Use MSBuildToolsVersion to detect when we should
use the .NET 3.5 MSBuild tasks for VC9. Note that this requires your
.wixproj to be declared <Project ToolsVersion="3.5" ...> so MSBuild
builds the .wixproj using v3.5 tools.

BriaRo: SFBUG:2788210 - Removed additional Class/@Id elements that were being
created from a logic error when adding elements to a component in the
UtilFinalizeHarvesterMutator class when mutating registry entries.

JasonGin: SFBUG:2380391 - Resolve wixlib references so msbuild dependency
checking works properly

EricStJ: SFBUG:2785180 - Adding attributes to help elements to support building
Help2 MSMs. Must use redistributables when using MSMs to prevent 2
merging 2 instances of the same CAs.

WixBuild: Version 3.0.5308.0

BobArnso: Add debugger logging for WixUIValidatePath custom action; add
WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH property to suppress WixUIValidatePath calls.

BobArnso: Fix user-reported typo in fr-FR localization.

MiCarls: SFBUG:2792009 fix a crash in XmlFile when XML file doesn't exist
(only occured in XPath mode)

AaronSte: Add documentation annotations for deprecated elements in wix.xsd so
information will appear in IntelliSense and not just the .chm.

BriaRo: Added the capability for heat to take an extension via the command line
similar to how the other tools do using '-ext Extension'.

SF-NSleigh: SFREQ:2609695 - add support for harvesting performance counters.

EricStJ: SFBUG:2790472 Projects with references to localized WiX projects fail
to compile due to pre-processor variable collisions.

WixBuild: Version 3.0.5315.0

BobArnso: Fix SFBug:2792525 - Missing punctuation in WixUI_en-us.wxs

AaronSte: Remove VS WiX detection and blocking logic from WiX setup.

EricStJ: SFBUG:2792176 - Do not use ConvertToAbsolutePath.

BobArnso: Re-fix SFBug:2786736 - Conditionalize for MSBuild 2.0 gold in
addition to 2.0 SPx and 3.5

EricStJ: SFBUG:2777114 - Replacing TargetPath and TargetPdbPath with tokens
to enable delayed expansion of the properties. Modifying votive to
use the tokens.

WixBuild: Version 3.0.5322.0

AaronSte: Update error message that appears if a string contains characters not
in the codepage to provide more helpful guidance.

AaronSte: SFBUG:2795343 - Fix typo in .NET Framework bootstrapper how to topic
in the documentation.

AaronSte: Add a documentation topic describing how to build WiX projects in
Team Foundation Build.

WixBuild: Version 3.0.5329.0

AaronSte: Simplifying the Team Foundation Build help topic.

AaronSte: SFBUG:2801322 - Adding notes to the docs indicating that 64-bit MSIs
require an InstallerVersion of 200 or greater.

WixBuild: Version 3.0.5405.0

HeathS: SFBUG:2805264 - Diffing MSIs does not yield validation flag

WixBuild: Version 3.0.5419.0

Released: WiX Toolset v3.0 (Jun 19, 2009)

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:23:10 GMT