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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:58 PM

Complete list of Candle preprocessor variables

Some people have asked about this in the past on the wix-users mailing list, so I thought I'd just put it here so it's on the web searches. (We really need to do an overhaul on our WiX home page ). This is just copied verbatim from the Wix.chm file. [Edit]:
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Friday, October 19, 2007 11:02 AM

How to use Extensions in Votive (IIS or UI extensions, for example)

It seems we have this question pop up a few times a week on the wix-users mailing list, so I thought I'd add something here as another reference when people are searching the web. Thanks to Aaron Stebner for writing this entry in our WiX.chm file, available
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:42 PM

Handy little Visual Studio shortcut key for Wix/Votive developement

If you use Visual Studio to edit your Wix projects (either using Votive or just the plain XML editor), you may be interested in this handy little shortcut key. If you turn on pedantic checking for your WiX files, one of the warnings will be about having
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:29 PM

Missing project/item template files after installing Votive

I recently installed Votive on Vista and noticed that the project templates weren't showing up when going to File/New Project/WiX. I haven't dug into it deeply yet, but I suspect that it has to do with running devenv.exe /setup as part of the setup and
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Monday, October 02, 2006 1:18 PM

Updated the Votive page on wix.sourceforge.net

We've been missing information about Votive on our official WiX web page, so I updated the web site. You can check it out at http://wix.sourceforge.net/votive.html . It also has some screen shots.
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Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:36 AM

SharpDevelop now supports WiX projects

Matt Ward has released a WiX setup project to SharpDevelop that looks pretty slick. It's got a lot of the same stuff that I've been planning on doing with Votive, but it looks like he's already done it. Great job! If you don't use Visual Studio, it might
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Monday, September 18, 2006 11:16 AM

Votive installation requires ProjectAggregator2.msi

When you try to install Votive v3 you'll probably see a dialog box that says something like " To install Votive, you need to first install ProjectAggregator2.msi, which is available at http://wix.sourceforge.net . " Well, to my shame, I forgot to put
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Friday, September 15, 2006 10:14 PM

Votive v3 has been released!!

Well, after many weeks of work, I've finally checked in Votive v3. It is now available after any build >= 3.0.2120.0. You can download it from here . Just to highlight a few of the new features that are available... MSBuild support – the .wixproj file
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:27 PM

Update on Votive v3

It's been a while since I blogged and I've been lax about keeping people up to date about the status of Votive, so here comes a much needed update. Several people have recently asked me two different questions recently in relation to the future of Votive:
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:12 AM

Announcing a new WiX project: Sconce

Although I'm still planning at this point to use the new VS SDK 2005 MPF classes , I want to continue to support the current Votive VS 2003 version for a little while. I at least want to clean up some bugs and make it a little more robust before moving
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Monday, August 01, 2005 10:57 PM

Validation of the Votive Roadmap

I've gotten a lot of validation for the roadmap I laid out in my last blog entry via the wix-devs mailing list. Most people say that while it's unfortunate that support for Visual Studio 2003 will be cut off, if I get more for free by switching to the
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Saturday, July 30, 2005 5:07 PM

Roadmap of Votive

What is Votive and where is it going? Well, first of all you should probably understand what WiX is. In a nutshell, WiX (Windows Installer XML) is an XML-based language for creating Windows Installer packages (.MSI files) that can install applications
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