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Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:10 PM

Link to information about new WixGamingExtension in WiX v3.0 for Game Explorer integration

Bob Arnson posted some information about a new feature in WiX v3.0 that I wanted to link to here as well to hopefully help raise visibility. In his post, located at http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/04/22/new-wix-feature-gaming-extension/ , he describes
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 5:58 PM

How I resolved Windows Installer error code 2738 on Vista while running light.exe from WiX v3.0

Recently, while attempting to build a Japanese MSI using WiX v3.0 , I received an error message that looked like the following: light.exe : error LGHT0217 : An unexpected external UI message was received: ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:24 AM

Link to information about a new WiX custom action to create Internet shortcuts

Bob Arnson has posted some information on his blog about a new feature he has added to WiX 3.0 that I wanted to link to here. In his post at http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/03/18/new-wix-feature-internet-shortcuts/ , Bob describes the Internet shortcut
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:19 PM

Link to info about a new feature in WiX v3.0 to globally set the default compression level

Bob Arnson recently posted some information about a new feature he contributed to the WiX toolset that I wanted to link to here. This feature allows you to pass a new switch named -dcl to the WiX linker (light.exe) to specify a default compression level
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Monday, January 14, 2008 5:27 PM

Link to more detailed notes about changes in the weekly WiX build

Over the weekend, I noticed a couple of posts on Bob Arnson's blog that I wanted to link to here. Bob indicated in this post that he was going to start publishing more detailed information about the changes included in each weekly build of WiX . For those
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:04 PM

Votive in WiX v3.0 now supports Visual Studio 2008

Since Visual Studio 2008 shipped last November, I have been asked a few times via my blog about if/when the Votive Visual Studio add-in that is a part of the WiX toolset will support integrating into VS 2008. It was not very well publicized initially,
Posted by astebner | 6 Comments
Monday, January 07, 2008 5:46 PM

Why XNA Game Studio 2.0 setup switched from using WiX v2.0 to using WiX v3.0

The MSIs for the XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 and 1.0 Refresh releases were created using WiX v2.0 . The MSIs for the recently released XNA Game Studio 2.0 product were created with a recent build of WiX v3.0 . The decision to move from WiX v2.0 to v3.0
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:49 PM

New CTP of Visual Studio Team System Code Name Rosario now available with built-in WiX support

Jeff Beehler posted an item on his blog today announcing the availability of the Visual Studio Team System Code Name "Rosario" November CTP for download. The introductory page for this CTP can be found at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=96097 .
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 5:53 PM

Using WiX 3.0 to create a per-user MSI that does not prompt for elevation on Windows Vista

A while back, I posted a summary of some information I learned about how Windows Installer interacts with UAC on Windows Vista. Included in that blog post is a list of steps that must be taken to create a per-user MSI that will not cause a Windows Vista
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Friday, October 26, 2007 7:38 PM

Updated instructions for building patches using the new WiX v3.0 patch building system

My new team is using WiX v3.0 to create the MSI-based setups for the upcoming XNA Game Studio 2.0 product . One of the readiness activities we're working on prior to shipping is testing the process of building and installing patches for these MSIs. Our
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Friday, October 19, 2007 5:29 PM

More details about how to use extensions when authoring and building MSIs in WiX v3.0

I have seen questions pop up fairly frequently both on internal Microsoft mailing lists and on the WiX mailing lists on SourceForge about how to use the built-in custom actions included in extension DLLs in WiX v3.0. This is one of the big changes that
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:44 PM

Download available for a supplemental set of Windows Vista Media Center project templates

I have posted an MSI that can be used to install an additional set of Windows Vista Media Center project templates. You can download the MSI at http://astebner.sts.winisp.net/Tools/mce_project_templates.zip . These project templates are designed to supplement
Posted by astebner | 13 Comments
Thursday, September 06, 2007 7:06 PM

Subtle problem with major upgrades in WiX files in the Media Center SDK

One of the features included in the WiX v3.0 source files included in the C# project template in the latest version of the Windows Vista Media Center SDK is a group of settings to make it easy to implement a Windows Installer major upgrade when building
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:18 PM

Link to information about upcoming plans for supporting Windows Installer 4.5 in WiX

I noticed a post on Rob Mensching's blog this weekend that I wanted to link to here as well. In the post, located at http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/09/03/Windows-Installer-4.5-and-the-WiX-toolset.aspx , he outlines some work he did this past
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:36 PM

Example WiX-based setup that can be used to build both 32-bit and 64-bit MSIs

I previously posted an example that allows you to build a WiX-based MSI that will install a Windows Vista Media Center application and create a custom start menu strip. However, there is a limitation in this example (that was pointed out in this post
Posted by astebner | 10 Comments
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