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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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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:18 PM

Scenarios where enabling Windows Installer verbose logging does not appear to work

A while back, I posted a list of instructions that can be used to enable Windows Installer verbose logging in order to troubleshoot MSI-based setup issues. Since then, some people have tried to follow those instructions in order to gather Visual Studio
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
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
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Friday, January 18, 2008 4:42 PM

Link to Channel9 video about Windows Installer application compatibility issues on Windows Vista

A new Channel9 video has been posted that I wanted to link to here. The video is located at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=374129 , and in it, Robert Flaming discusses application compatibility issues that can affect Windows Installer -based
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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
Monday, October 22, 2007 9:03 AM

Link to analysis of possible issues with EXE custom actions in Windows Installer

Robert Flaming has posted a helpful analysis of the issues that need to be considered when using EXEs in Windows Installer custom actions . You can find this analysis at http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2007/10/20/integration-hurdles-for-exe-custom-actions.aspx
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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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Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:48 PM

Windows Installer 4.5 beta now available for download on the Microsoft Connect site

As reported this weekend by the Windows Installer team and Heath Stewart , the beta of Windows Installer 4.5 (including binaries, headers, libraries and help files) has been posted to the Connect site for members of the beta program to download and try
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 5:04 PM

How to sign up for the Windows Installer 4.5 beta program

I just noticed a set of steps that have been posted on the Windows Installer team blog that can be used to sign up for the Windows Installer 4.5 beta. If you are interested in trying out this beta and haven't signed up yet, I encourage you to check out
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2007 8:11 AM

How to workaround issue where launching Outlook triggers a repair of VS 2005

Recently, I helped investigate this Visual Studio 2005 issue reported on the Microsoft Connect site that I wanted to describe here in case anyone reading this blog runs into a similar issue. To summarize that bug report, a couple of customers had installed
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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
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:35 PM

Link to information about configuring Software Explorer on Windows Vista

I noticed an interesting post on the Windows Installer team blog that I wanted to draw some more attention to. The post, located at http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2007/07/06/configuring-windows-vista-software-explorer.aspx , explains
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:19 PM

Link to details about how to use new patch creation features in WiX v3.0

Peter Marcu posted a couple of items on his blog recently that I wanted to link to here so hopefully more folks will see them. The first is a high-level description of new patching features that have been added to WiX v3.0 over the past few months. You
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
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