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WiX Online Meeting #113 Highlights

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 by Bob Arnson

With Rob away on FireGiant business, it was up to Sean and me to run this week's WiX online meeting, which we accomplished with aplomb and only minor technical difficulties.

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WiX Online Meeting #112 Highlights

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 by Bob Arnson

After a brief pause caused by certain people being extra-busy doing certain things, we're back to a regularly-scheduled schedule for the WiX online meeting.

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WiX Online Meeting #111 Highlights

Tuesday, August 23, 2016 by Bob Arnson

Remove RepairCommands from .NET Framework redistributable package groups, from @barnson, requests that the package groups in WixNetFxExtension not support repair. Repairing the .NET Framework is time consuming and almost always requires a reboot and it's usually not needed when repairing your own app. As this would be a behavior change, we took this issue into WiX v4.0.

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WiX Online Meeting #110 Highlights

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by Bob Arnson

WiX VS Project ignores GenerateProjectSpecificOutputFolder MsBuild property, from @Karankang007, points out that the WiX v3.x MSBuild targets do not support the GenerateProjectSpecificOutputFolder property. As GenerateProjectSpecificOutputFolder is part of the common MSBuild targets, WiX v4.x's MSBuild targets automatically get that support but WiX v3.x would need to manually implement it. We took this issue into the v3 backlog if someone wanted to implement this functionality.

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WiX Online Meeting #109 Highlights

Tuesday, July 19, 2016 by Bob Arnson

WIX Heat - improper output - causes compilation error on the .wxs file produced after harvesting a .reg file, from @sharmade, is a follow-up to WIX Heat not harvesting a reg file properly - outputting the wrong attribute - 'Directory' instead of 'DirectoryRef' with the details needed to reproduce the problem. We took this Heat bug in WiX v3.x for someone to investigate the incorrect code generation.

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WiX Online Meeting #108 Highlights

Tuesday, July 5, 2016 by Bob Arnson

This week's update on WiX v3.10.3 is that this is the last update on WiX v3.10.3. WiX v3.10.3 was released on 4-July as planned (in plan v12.3.9). You can download WiX v3.10.3 and read more about the release on my blog and Rob's blog.

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