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Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:14 PM

WiX: "Rosario" WiX toolset vs. the community WiX toolset

This post is a follow-up to Rob Mensching's " Visual Studio ships the WiX toolset " blog entry. One of the key tenets WiX development is operating under is to make all changes available to both community WiX as well as "Rosario" WiX. (They actually get
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Friday, November 02, 2007 3:46 PM

WiX: Binary Delta patch support added to WiX 3.0

Last night, everything came together and the changes to add binary delta patch support to WiX 3.0 went in. The feature is minimally documented but the schema and docs have descriptions of the new elements and attributes. I hope to get time to provide
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Friday, November 02, 2007 3:36 PM

WiX: Writing your own WiX Extension Part 2: Preprocessor

The preprocessor in WiX allows extensibilty at a few levels. In this article I will describe how to add a PreprocessorExtension to your WixExtension and have it handle variables and functions you define in your own namespace. [This sample assumes you
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Friday, November 02, 2007 3:24 PM

WiX: Writing Your Own WiX Extension Part 1

Wix extensions are used to extend and customize what WiX builds and how it builds it. I plan on talking about the 3 most common types of extensions in this article series; ProprocessorExtension, CompilerExtension, and BinderExtension. The first step in
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